• Media type: Book
  • Title: "The way I communicate changes but how I speak don't" : a longitudinal perspective on adolescent language variation and change
  • Contains: The questionThe adolescent peak hypothesis: linguistic lifecycles and language change -- Limits of the apparent time construct and the linguistic individual -- Adolescent peak as evidence for language change -- Evidence for age-grading -- Age-grading and life-stage change in AAE -- Life-stage variation: evidence from ethnographic studies and second dialect research -- Child language variation -- Sociolinguistic variation and the child -- Children in SDA research -- Adolescents -- Ethnographic studies of adolescence -- Adolescent linguistic plasticity and educational institutions as a locus of contact -- Emerging adults -- Adult SDA and longitudinal research -- Second dialect acquisition for adults -- Adult panel studies -- Sociolinguistic motivations and restrictions on lifespan change -- Contextualizing African American English vowels -- Description of the AAE vowel system -- Similarities and distinctions between the AAVS and the European American SVS -- AAVS as part of AAE: evidence from perception studies and regional distribution -- Social evaluation of African American English vowels -- AAE vowels and sound change -- A brief history on the study of aae participation in regional sound changes -- Evidence for mutual influence between AAE and PRV vowel systems -- Factors that potentially influence AAE and PRV interaction -- The linguistic ecology of FPG -- Rural Eastern and Piedmont North Carolina -- Urban Piedmont North Carolina -- The database and the analysis -- Frank Porter Graham project -- Participants -- Field sites -- Sound file selection -- Data extraction -- Selection of normalization procedure -- Details of normalization procedure chosen for the current analysis -- Independent variables considered in the analysis -- How do children change their vowel pronunciations as they age? -- Statistical analysis for group change across time -- Analysis of school demographic data -- Group results for four time points -- Phonetic environment -- Formality -- Sex differences -- Group change across time -- Participation in the AAVS by field site -- Exploration of vowel change by field site -- Discussion of group results -- Individual change -- Stable systems and life time change: a comparison across linguistic subsystems -- Group level comparisons for trajectories of morphosyntactic, consonantal, and vocalic change -- The morphosyntactic and consonantal variables -- Relationships among vocalic, consonantal, and morphosyntactic variables -- Adolescent peaking patterns for bat and copula absence -- Participation in or accommodation to prv sound changes -- Stability or erratic patterns in vowels with no correspondence in morphosyntax -- Factors that contribute to differential patterns of linguistic change across the lifespan -- The nature of variation and life-stage change -- The many paths through adolescence: implications for apparent-time analyses of sound change -- Ethnolectal vowel variation in context -- The complexity of stability -- Conclusions and further directions.
  • Contributor: Kohn, Mary [Author]
  • imprint: [Durham, NC]: Duke Univ. Press, 2014
  • Published in: American Dialect Society: Publication of the American Dialect Society ; 9900
    American speech ; 2014,0089,01
  • Extent: VIII, 221 S.; Ill., zahlr. graph. Darst
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780822368298
  • RVK notation: HF 909 : Publication of the American Dialect Society
    HF 619 : Sprache einzelner Geschlechter und Altersklassen
    GD 8045 : Pennsylvaniendeutsch (Pennsilfaanisch)
    HF 980 : Sonstige Mundarten und Regionen
  • Keywords: Amerikanisches Englisch > Schwarze > Jugendsprache > Sprachvariante
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references. - Supplement to American speech, vol. 89

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