Salience in sociolinguistics : a quantitative approach / Péter Rácz.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Rácz, Péter.

Series:

Topics in English linguistics ; 84.

Topics in English linguistics, 1434-3452 ; 84

Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 84

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive grammar.

Glottalization (Phonetics).

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Linguistic change.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This work proposes a definition of the notion of salience in sociolinguistics. Salient linguistic variants are those that are easily picked up by the listeners, and these stand in opposition to `invisible' variants, which are, even if they also show complex social stratification, completely ignored. Taking a quantitative angle, this work sees salience as a function of relative frequency differences, giving it an empirically testable operationalisation.

Contents:

Preliminaries

Salience and linguistic Variation

Lexical reference and social indexation

Concepts and notations

Salience as low probability

Structure of the book

Methodology

Chapter structure

The case studies

Concluding remarks

Defining Salience

Salience as a general term

Salience in sociolinguistics

Salience in Visual Cognition

Selective attention in hearing

Operationalisingsociolinguistic salience

Preliminaries

Defining salience

Exemplars and transitional probabilities

Cognitive salience : main assumptions and considerations

Cognitive salience : further assumptions

Step-by-step corpus editing

Calculating transitional probabilities

Definite Article Reduction

Background

Details of the process

DAR as a salient variable

Analysis

Methods

Salience from token frequency

Salience from transitional probability

Further arguments for phonotactic distinctiveness

Glottalisation in the South of England

Two recent studies

Salience and glottalisation

The London-Lund Corpus

The Spoken Corpus of Adolescent London English

Modelling results

Hiatus resolution in Hungarian

The perception of hiatus resolution : Methods

The perception of hiatus resolution : Results

Hiatus resolution and naive linguistic awareness

Corpus results

Main points

Derhoticisation in Glasgow

Social stratification and social awareness

Irl in Glasgow

Studies on coda/r/

Interim Summary

The FRED study

Transitional probabilities in coda /r/ realisation

The operationalisation and relevance of salience

Salience and models of the lexicon

The relevance of salience

The duality of patterning

Modelling, phonetic Variation and indexation

Summary

Salience and language change

Speaker indexation in sound change

Approachesto Speaker indexation

Simulations on the role of indexation

Salience in the propagation of a change

Glottalisation in England

Derhoticisation in Scotland

Conclusions

The source of salience

From cognitive properties to language use

Consequences for phonological modelling

The predictability of salience

Types of phonological change

Consonants and vowels

Overview

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Freiburg im Breisgau.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universität Freiburg, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110305395

3110305399

OCLC:

862939255