Acquiring sociolinguistic variation / edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Matthias Katerbow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Vogelaer, Gunther, editor.

Katerbow, Matthias, editor.

Series:

Studies in language variation ; Volume 20.

Studies in Language Variation, 1872-9592 ; Volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Languages in contact.

Sociolinguistics.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

Summary:

The study of how linguistic variation is acquired is considered a nascent field in both psycho- and sociolinguistics. Within that research context, this book aims at two objectives. First, it wants to help bridging the gap between researchers working on acquisition from different theoretical backgrounds. The book therefore includes contributions by both psycho- and sociolinguists, and by representatives of further relevant sub-disciplines of linguistics, including historical linguistics and dialectology. Second, in order to enable cross-linguistic comparison, the book brings together research carried out in different sociolinguistic constellations, as most obviously found in different language areas or different countries.

Contents:

Bridging the gap between language acquisition and sociolinguistics: introduction to an interdisciplinary topic / Gunther De Vogelaer, Jean-Pierre Chevrot, Matthias Katerbow and Aurélie Nardy

The effects of exposure on awareness and discrimination of regional accents by five- and six year old children / Erica Beck

How do social networks influence children's stylistic practices? social mixing, macro/micro analysis and methodological questions / Laurence Buson

Child acquisition of sociolinguistic variation: Adults, children and (regional) standard Dutch two-verb clusters in one community / Leonie Cornips

Acquiring attitudes towards varieties of Dutch: A quantitative perspective / Gunther De Vogelaer and Jolien Toye

What is the target variety? The diverse effects of standard dialect variation in second language acquisition / Andrea Ender

The relationship between segregation and participation in ethnolectal variants: A longitudinal study / Charlie Farrington, Jennifer Renn and Mary Kohn

Socializing language choices: When variation in the language environment supports acquisition / Anna Ghimenton

Language acquisition in bilectal environments: Competing motivations, metalinguistic awareness, and the Socio-Syntax of Development Hypothesis / Evelina Leivada and Kleanthes K. Grohmann

Acquisition of phonological variables of a Flemish dialect by children raised in Standard Dutch: Some considerations on the learning mechanisms / Kathy Rys, Emmanuel Keuleers, Walter Daelemans and Steven Gillis

Developmental sociolinguistics and the acquisition of T-glottalling by immigrant teenagers in London / Erik Schleef.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.