Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan
Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives from Panel Studies
1st Edition
Published on 30. March 2021
310 pages
978-0-429-63852-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume brings together research on panel studies with the aim of providing a coherent empirical and theoretical knowledge-base for examining the impact of maturation and lifespan-specific effects on linguistic malleability in the post-adolescent speaker. Building on the work of Wagner and Buchstaller (2018), the present collection offers a critical examination of the theoretical implications of panel research across a range of geographic regions and time periods. The volume seeks to offer a way forward in the debates circling about the phenomenon of later-life language change, drawing on contributions from a variety of linguistic disciplines to examine critical topics such as the effect of linguistic architecture, the roles of mobility and identity construction, and the impact of frequency effects. Taken together, this edited collection both informs and pushes forward key questions on the nature of lifespan change, making this key reading for students and researchers in cognitive linguistics, historical linguistics, dialectology, and variationist sociolinguistics.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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Reflowable
Illustrations
41 Tables, black and white; 47 Line drawings, black and white; 47 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-0-429-63852-7 (9780429638527)
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Karen V. Beaman | Isabelle Buchstaller
Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan
Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives from Panel Studies
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Karen V. Beaman | Isabelle Buchstaller
Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan
Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives from Panel Studies
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03/2021
1st Edition
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Persons
Karen V. Beaman received her Ph.D in sociolinguistics at Queen Mary, University of London and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen. Her research interests concern language variation, coherence and change, with particular focus on how factors of identity, mobility and social networks drive or inhibit change.
Isabelle Buchstaller is professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her research interests include language variation and change across time. She is the author of Quotatives: New trends and sociolinguistic implications (2014) and has co-edited four volumes, most recently, panel research in language variation and change (with Suzanne Evans Wagner).
Isabelle Buchstaller is professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her research interests include language variation and change across time. She is the author of Quotatives: New trends and sociolinguistic implications (2014) and has co-edited four volumes, most recently, panel research in language variation and change (with Suzanne Evans Wagner).
Content
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
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?
Index
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
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?
Index
