Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan

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Panel studies of language variation and change: Theoretical and methodological implications

PART I: REVELATIONS FROM PAST TREND AND PANEL STUDIES

Chapter 1.

The beginnings of panel research: Individual language variation, change and stability in Eskilstuna

Chapter 2.

Alignment of individuals with community trends: Subjects from the Portuguese

Chapter 3.

Stylistic Variation in Panel Studies of Language Change: Challenge and Opportunity

PART II: INSIGHTS IN THE ANALYSIS OF INTRA-SPEAKER (IN)STABILITY

Chapter 4.

Individual and group trajectories across adulthood in a sample of Utah English speakers

Chapter 5.

Accent reversion in older adults: evidence from the Queen's Christmas broadcasts

PART III: A GLIMPSE OF THE PAST: PANEL RESEARCH FROM ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Chapter 6.

Exploiting convention: Lifespan change and generational incrementation in the development of cleft constructions

Chapter 7.

Corpus-based lifespan change in Late Middle English

PART IV: NEW METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR LIFESPAN STUDIES

Chapter 8.

Exploring the effect of linguistic architecture and heuristic method in panel analysis

Chapter 9.

Loss of historical phonetic contrast across the lifespan: Articulatory, lexical, and social effects on sound change in Swabian

Chapter 10.

Deconfounding the effects of competition and attrition on dialect across the lifespan: A panel study of Swabian

PART V: FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR PANEL RESERACH

Chapter 11.

What's the point of panel studies?

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