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Research Context: Southern Gallo-Romance

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This chapter comprises an external history of the dialectalisation of Gallo-Romance, focusing on Gascon and, in particular, on the Béarnais sub-dialect of Gascon, which attests the highest number of native speakers. The sociolinguistic profile of the extant Gascon speech community in Béarn is discussed in detail before turning to the Occitan revitalisation movement and, in particular, the implications of this movement for the Gascon speech community. This discussion examines the Calandreta immersion education schools and adult education initiatives that have, since the 1980s, produced new speakers of Gascon (in the form of Occitan) in Béarn. This chapter will thus provide a comprehensive overview of the internal, external, and extralinguistic factors that have influenced and may influence language change in Gascon.

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    All speaker numbers are taken from Moreux (2004) who uses three reports entitled Pratique(s), (présence) et représentations de l’occitan (ou langue occitane) published between 1994 and 1997 after surveys were undertaken for the Conseils Généraux of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département and for the Aquitaine Conseil Régional.

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Mooney, D. (2023). Research Context: Southern Gallo-Romance. In: Language and Dialect Death. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51101-1_3

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