Dialect accommodation in hybrid families case study: tlemcen speech community

Abstract

The purpose of this sociolinguistics research is to shed light on the existence ofthe phenomenon of dialect accommodation among hybrid families which waves and husbands are from differents origins and regions; urban and rural in Tlemcen speech community and analyse it linguistic consequences in the speech of two kind of hybrid families; UWRH and RWUH families. As it sought to describe which gender male/ female adjust his speech more and at what direction. Also, this study examines the linguistic variation and change that occurs in the speech of these families through the process of linguistic accommodation, the objective is to find out which new forms are adopted and which local / original forms are reduced in terms of the three linguistic levels; phonological, morphological, lexical and discover the main factors and motives that leads to the linguistic change in these families’ speech.