Connecting the Individual and the Community in Sociolinguistic Panel Research

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements



Towards an understanding of stylistic choices in change across the lifespan

Isabelle Buchstaller and Karen V. Beaman

PART I. Style and Socioindexicality



Ageing in style: Towards disentangling style-shifting and lifespan change

James Grama, Isabelle Buchstaller, Anne-Marie Moelders, Lea Bauernfeind and Mirjam Eiswith



Investigating age effects in the perception of (ing): A study on professionalism ratings from the North East of England

Johanna Mechler



Change in language attitudes in real-time: Results from the Ulrichsberg project in Austria

Lars Buelow, Philip C. Vergeiner, and Dominik Wallner



Commentary - Style and social meaning across the lifespan

Suzanne Evans Wagner

PART II. Style and Audience Design



Tracking stylistic variation over a very long lifespan

Laurel MacKenzie



Stability, change and reversal in public speech: A longitudinal case study

Josiane Riverin-Coutlee and Jonathan Harrington



Commentary - Exploring Stylistic Repertoires Across the Lifespan

Silvina Bongiovanni, Betsy Sneller, and Chantal Tetreault

PART III. Language Contact



Change and Stability: Intra- and inter-individual coherence across the linguistic architecture

Karen V. Beaman



Lifespan change and intragenerational norms in a diverse speech community: Australian English diphthongs

Elena Sheard



A panel study of language obsolescence: The fate of (?) in a Pacific Japanese colonial koine

Kazuko Matsumoto and David Britain



Commentary - Complex contact scenarios in the context of individual lifespan change

Devyani Sharma

PART IV. Computational Modeling



Structured heterogeneity in language change as a result of inter-speaker heterogeneity

Gareth J. Baxter, Richard A. Blythe, and William Croft



Commentary - The past, present and future of language and aging research

David Bowie

Index