Language Change and Variation
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1989
VIII, 450 pages
978-90-272-8607-9 (ISBN)
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The study of language variation in social context continues to hold the attention of a large number of linguists. This research is promoted by the annual colloquia on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English' (NWAVE). This volume is a selection of revised papers from the NWAVE XI, held at Georgetown University. It deals with a number of items, some of which have often been discussed, others that have been less emphasized. The first group of articles in the volume center on a frequent theme: speech communities as the essential setting for understanding variation in language. Earlier work in linguistic variation dealt for the most part with phonological variation and change. Syntactic and morphological change and variation in syntax are also discussed. A selection on the role of variation in understanding first language acquisition comprises three papers. Articles in the last section of the volume concern theoretical controversy and methodological advances.
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- LANGUAGE CHANGE AND VARIATION
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- PREFACE
- Table of contents
- EXACT DESCRIPTION OF THE SPEECH COMMUNITY: SHORT A IN PHILADELPHIA
- Abstract.
- 1. The object of linguistic description.
- 2. Short a and lexical split.
- 3. The database and methods of analysis.
- 4. Variation and consistency in the core classes.
- 5. Special phonetic conditions.
- 6. Short a before intervocalic consonants.
- 7. Grammatical categories.
- 8. Word frequency.
- 9. The short a pattern.
- 10. The speech community.
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- PATTERNED SYMMETRY OF SHIFTING AND LENGTHENED VOWELS IN THE MONTREAL FRENCH VERNACULAR
- Abstract.
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. Review.
- 3. Methodology.
- 4. Analysis.
- 5. Alors as a social marker.
- 6. Comparison of (c:) with the symmetric front vowel (e:).
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- LIST OF SPEAKERS
- NEW RESULTS ON MONTREAL FRENCH /r/
- Abstract.
- REFERENCES
- IS URBAN INFLUENCE VARB-ABLE?
- Abstract.
- REFERENCES
- MONTREAL FRENCH: LANGUAGE, CLASS, AND IDEOLOGY
- Abstract.
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. The linguistic market.
- 3. Grammatical space.
- 4. Symbolic space.
- 5. Generational differences.
- 6. Results.
- 7. Conclusion.
- REFERENCES
- SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF THE USE OF ENGLISH IN SWEDEN
- Abstract.
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. The variables.
- 3. Results.
- REFERENCES
- FUNCTION AND GRAMMAR IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH: PERIPHRASTIC DO
- Abstract.
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. A sketch of the history of periphrastic do.
- 3. Processing factors in the rise of periphrastic do.
- 4. The competition among forms.
- 5. Explaining the rise of do.
- 6. Conclusion.
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- THE ENGLISH GERUND: SYNTACTIC CHANGE AND DISCOURSE FUNCTION
- Abstract.
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. Syntactic Distribution of Verbal Nouns.
- 3. Appositives and Gerunds: A Shared Discourse Function?
- 4. Conclusion.
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- MORPHOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY, WORD FREQUENCY AND THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
- Abstract.
- REFERENCES
- SYNTACTICIZATION IN LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: CLAUSE STATUS VARIATION
- Abstract.
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. The speech sample.
- 3. Discourse terminology.
- 4. Variation in relative clause structure and use.
- 5. Variation in the use of relative clauses.
- 6. Concluding remarks.
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- CHOOSING BETWEEN THAT AND IT
- Abstract.
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. Left-dislocation.
- 3. THAT - extraposition.
- 4. Conclusions.
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INSIDE AND OUTSIDE RELATIVE CLAUSES: PRONOMINAL REDUNDANCY IN PORTUGUESE
- Abstract.
- Introduction.
- 1. Relativization in spoken Brazilian Portuguese.
- 2. Pronominalization in spoken Brazilian Portuguese.
- 3. Relativization and pronominalization in spoken Brazilian Portuguese.
- 4. Closing Remarks.
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- ADDRESSING NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT BLACK CHILDRENS' LANGUAGE
- Abstract.
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. The CAL child language study.
- 3. Semantic category analysis.
- 4. Summary and conclusion.
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX
- STRUCTURAL VARIABILITY IN PHONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT: FINAL NASALS IN VERNACULAR BLACK ENGLISH
- Abstract.
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. Method.
- 3. Final Nasals.
- 4. A starting point.
- 5. The status of final nasals at 36 and 54 months.
- 6. Longitudinal nasal vowel acquisition.
- 7. Nasalization in broader perspective.
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX A
- APPENDIX B
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY IN NARRATIVE, INFORMATIVE AND ARGUMENTATIVE DISCOURSE
- Abstract.
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. Embeddings.
- 3. The noun phrase.
- 4. Verb and sentence modifiers.
- 5. Statistical analysis.
- 6. Conclusions.
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- SOME PROBLEMS IN DEFINING SYNTACTIC VARIABLES: THE CASE OF WH-QUESTIONS IN MONTREAL FRENCH
- Abstract.
- 1. Introduction.
- 1. Database.
- 2. Alternate surface forms for Wh-questions in Montreal French.
- 3. Distribution of Wh-questions surface forms in the South-Center corpus.
- 4. Semantic and functional equivalence of the alternate forms under study.
- 5. Discussion.
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- A CLOSER LOOK AT SO-CALLED VARIABLE PROCESSES
- Abstract.
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. Scope in Hindustani.
- 3. Syncope in English.
- 4. Word-final consonant deletion.
- 5. Sanskrit ruki-rule.
- 6. Vowel chain shifts.
- 7. Summary.
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- SOME APPROACHES TO SYNTACTIC VARIATION
- Abstract.
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- A VERSATILE PROGRAM FOR THE ANALYSIS OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC DATA
- Abstract.
- 1. Background.
- 2. The logistic model.
- 3. The partitioning analysis.
- 4. Simulation.
- 5. Large data sets.
- 6. Multiple variants.
- 7. Knockout analysis.
- 8. Implicational scales.
- 9. Documentation and Availability.
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- THE CARE AND HANDLING OF A MEGA-CORPUS: THE OTTAWA-HULL FRENCH PROJECT
- Abstract.
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. Choice of Communities.
- 3. Choice of Informants.
- 4. Validation of the Sample.
- 5. Characteristics of the Sample.
- 5.1. Place of origin of informants.
- 5.2. Socioeconomic characteristics of the informants.
- 5.2.1. Occupation.
- 5.2.2. Housing Characteristics.
- 5.2.3. Education.
- 6. Nature of the Data.
- 7. The computer corpus.
- 7.1. Construction of a computer corpus.
- 7.2. Automated manipulation of the corpus.
- 8. Summary.
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY
