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Form and function covariation: Obligation modals in Australian English 形式与功能共变:澳大利亚英语中的义务情态
2区 文学
Language Variation and Change Pub Date : 2023-10-23 DOI: 10.1017/s0954394523000200
Catherine E. Travis, Rena Torres Cacoullos
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Post-educator relaxation in the U-shaped curve: Evidence from a panel study of Tyneside (ing) u形曲线中的教育后放松:来自泰恩赛德小组研究的证据
2区 文学
Language Variation and Change Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0954394523000194
James Grama, Johanna Mechler, Lea Bauernfeind, Mirjam E. Eiswirth, Isabelle Buchstaller
{"title":"Post-educator relaxation in the U-shaped curve: Evidence from a panel study of Tyneside (ing)","authors":"James Grama, Johanna Mechler, Lea Bauernfeind, Mirjam E. Eiswirth, Isabelle Buchstaller","doi":"10.1017/s0954394523000194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954394523000194","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Age-grading—a cornerstone of sociolinguistic theorizing—is hypothesized to follow a U-shaped pattern. Vernacular forms peak in adolescence, abate in middle age, and increase again in retirement, forming a vernacular tail. A complete understanding of age-grading has been hampered by a lack of empirical evidence across the entire adult trajectory and a relatively narrow understanding of speakers’ motivations to change. This paper presents data from a dynamic panel dataset of Tyneside English speakers, covering successive cohorts over the entire adult lifespan. An analysis of (ing) reveals that the U-shaped curve is occupationally niched; only professional educators demonstrate clear retrenchment followed by a tail. Drawing on educational policy research, we argue this effect is largely driven by institutional (and heavily policed) expectations of UK educational policies. We are the first to demonstrate the occupationally niched nature of the U-shaped curve and provide quantitative evidence of the effect of educational policy on linguistic production.","PeriodicalId":46949,"journal":{"name":"Language Variation and Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A question of change: Putting five complementary measures to the test with French polar interrogatives 变化的问题:用法语极性疑问句测试五种互补措施
2区 文学
Language Variation and Change Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0954394523000170
Nathalie Dion
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LVC volume 35 issue 3 Cover and Back matter LVC第35卷第3期封面和封底
2区 文学
Language Variation and Change Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0954394523000261
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Subject dislocation in Ontario English: Insights from sociolinguistic typology 安大略省英语中的主语错位:来自社会语言学类型学的见解
2区 文学
Language Variation and Change Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0954394523000236
Sali A. Tagliamonte, Bridget L. Jankowski
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LVC volume 35 issue 3 Cover and Front matter LVC第35卷第3期封面和封面问题
2区 文学
Language Variation and Change Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1017/s095439452300025x
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Phonological Emergence and social reorganization: Developing a nasal /æ/ system in Lansing, Michigan 语音的出现和社会重组:在密歇根州兰辛发展鼻音/æ/系统
2区 文学
Language Variation and Change Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0954394523000182
Monica Nesbitt
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Where did wer go? Lexical variation and change in third-person male adult noun referents in Old and Middle English 我们去哪儿了?中古英语成年男性第三人称名词指涉物的词汇变异与变化
IF 1 2区 文学
Language Variation and Change Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0954394523000108
James M. Stratton
{"title":"Where did wer go? Lexical variation and change in third-person male adult noun referents in Old and Middle English","authors":"James M. Stratton","doi":"10.1017/S0954394523000108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394523000108","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The present study uses variationist quantitative methods to examine the evolution of the semantic field of third-person male adult noun referents from Old English to Middle English, covering a time depth of approximately six hundred years. Results show a shift from the favored variant wer in Old English to man in Middle English, with the diachronic change in frequency following a prototypical s-shaped distribution. Although the replacement seems to take centuries to be complete, lexical frequency and written transmission are proposed as influential explanatory factors, and a homonymic clash is suggested to have accelerated the process of replacement in Middle English. Text type and text origin contribute to variation, with alliteration significantly influencing lexical choices in Old English verse texts. When combined with findings from recent synchronic work, this study highlights a heterogeneously structured semantic domain, which has undergone lexical replacement and change over time, providing some evidence for the applicability of s-shaped patterns for lexical change.","PeriodicalId":46949,"journal":{"name":"Language Variation and Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48526098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Boomer Peak or Gen X Cliff? From SVS to LBMS in Georgia English 婴儿潮高峰还是X世代悬崖?格鲁吉亚英语从SVS到LBMS
IF 1 2区 文学
Language Variation and Change Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1017/S095439452300011X
Margaret E. L. Renwick, J. A. Stanley, Jon Forrest, Lelia Glass
{"title":"Boomer Peak or Gen X Cliff? From SVS to LBMS in Georgia English","authors":"Margaret E. L. Renwick, J. A. Stanley, Jon Forrest, Lelia Glass","doi":"10.1017/S095439452300011X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S095439452300011X","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The late twentieth century in the United States marks the decline of regional vowel systems like the Northern Cities Shift and the Southern Vowel Shift, replaced by supralocal systems like the Low-Back-Merger Shift. We chart such change in acoustic data from seven generations of White speakers (n = 135) in the Southeastern state of Georgia. We analyze front vowels affected by both the SVS and LBMS (dress, trap), plus price and face, known respectively to monophthongize and centralize in the SVS, and LBMS-implicated lot/thought. The SVS is most advanced among Georgians born in the mid-twentieth century, particularly in face-centralization. In Generation X, retraction of front lax vowels begins, leading toward the LBMS. These results, which hold across genders and education levels, support findings that regional vowel systems declined precipitously following a Gen X “cliff,” raising questions about how such language changes are rooted in demographic transformations of that time period.","PeriodicalId":46949,"journal":{"name":"Language Variation and Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47755358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Quotation in earlier and contemporary Australian Aboriginal English 澳大利亚早期和当代土著英语中的引文
IF 1 2区 文学
Language Variation and Change Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0954394523000169
Celeste Rodríguez Louro, Glenys Collard, Madeleine Clews, Matt Hunt Gardner
{"title":"Quotation in earlier and contemporary Australian Aboriginal English","authors":"Celeste Rodríguez Louro, Glenys Collard, Madeleine Clews, Matt Hunt Gardner","doi":"10.1017/S0954394523000169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394523000169","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We examine constructed dialogue in a longitudinal corpus of Australian Aboriginal English (AE) spoken in Perth, Australia. We conduct a variationist analysis of naturalistic data from forty-six L1 speakers of AE born 1907–2005. We ask, regarding the use of quotative frames, whether AE has changed in line with settler colonial Englishes. We examine whether a division of labor exists in the use of quotative frames, and whether the rise of first-person-marked internal thought reporting attested in settler colonial Englishes is present in AE. Our statistical modeling shows functional partitioning in how quotative frames are used, with AE speakers strongly encoding direct speech across time. We find that the rise of first-person-marked internal thought reporting has not been systemic in AE. Despite be like's incursion after 1983, the underlying system of AE has not changed. The cultural prerogative to encode speech remains strong despite sustained contact with non-First Nations Australia.","PeriodicalId":46949,"journal":{"name":"Language Variation and Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42333052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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