caa a22 4500 388058617 CHVBK 20180307125114.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0954394500001320 doi S0954394500001320 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0954394500001320 Let's tink about dat: Interdental fricatives in Cajun English [Elektronische Daten] The English of bilingual Cajuns living in southern Louisiana has been pejoratively depicted as an accented English; foremost among the stereotypes of Cajun English is the use of tink and dat for think and that. We present a variationist study of /θ/ and /ð/ in the speech of bilingual Cajuns in St. Landry Parish. The results show a complex interrelationship of age, gender, and social network. One of the major findings is a v-shaped age pattern rather than the regular generational model that is expected. The older generation use more of the dental variants [t, d] than all others, the middle-aged dramatically decrease their use, but the young show a level of usage closer to the old generation. The change is attributed to both language attrition and the blossoming of the Cajun cultural renaissance. Interestingly, neither young men in open networks nor women of all ages in open networks follow the v-shaped age pattern. In addition, they show opposite directions of change: men in open networks lead the change to [d], whereas women in open networks drop the dental variants of [t, d] almost entirely. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Dubois Sylvie Louisiana State University Horvath Barbara M. University of Sydney Language Variation and Change Cambridge University Press 10/3(1998-10), 245-261 0954-3945 10:3<245 1998 10 LVC https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394500001320 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394500001320 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dubois Sylvie Louisiana State University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Horvath Barbara M. University of Sydney NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Language Variation and Change Cambridge University Press 10/3(1998-10), 245-261 0954-3945 10:3<245 1998 10 LVC CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge