Sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition across the lifespan edited by Anna Ghimenton, Aurelie Nardy, Jean-Pierre Chevrot

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Ghimenton, Anna.
• Nardy, Aurélie.
• Chevrot, Jean-Pierre.

Series:

• Studies in language variation volume 26
• Studies in Language Variation volume 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Language and languages--Variation.
• Language acquisition.

Genre:

• Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

Summary:

"This volume provides a broad view of the field of sociolinguistic variation in acquisition. Favored by the current scientific context where interdisciplinarity is particularly encouraged, the chapters bring to light the complementarity between the social and cognitive sciences approaches to language acquisition. The book integrates sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic issues by bringing together scholars who have been developing conceptions of language acquisition throughout the lifespan that take into account the language-internal or cross-linguistic variation in first and second language, as well as in first and second dialect acquisition contexts. The volume gathers theoretical and empirical research and provides an excellent basis for scholars and students wanting to delve into the social and cognitive dimensions of both production and perception of sociolinguistic variation. The book enables the reader to understand, on the one hand, how variation is acquired in childhood or at a later stage and, on the other hand, how perception and production feed into one another building awareness of the social meaning underpinning language variation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Prelim pages
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• Section 1. Child language acquisition and sociolinguistic variation
• Chapter 1. Child language acquisition and sociolinguistic variation
• Chapter 2. Input effects on the acquisition of variation
• Chapter 3. The alternation between standard and vernacular pronouns by Belgian Dutch parents in child-oriented control acts
• Chapter 4. Testing interface and frequency hypotheses
• Chapter 5. Acquiring social and linguistic competence
• Chapter 6. Children’s sociolinguistic preferences
• Chapter 7. Variation in stress in the Jamaican classroom
• Section 2. Second language acquisition and dialectal variation in adults
• Chapter 8. Second language acquisition and dialectal variation in adults
• Chapter 9. Navigating variation amid contested norms and societal shifts
• Chapter 10. Usage, evaluation and awareness of French sociolinguistic variables by second-language learners during a stay abroad
• Chapter 11. The standard-dialect repertoire of second language users in German-speaking Switzerland
• Chapter 12. Identity, authenticity and dialect acquisition
• Chapter 13. Adult learners’ (non-) acquisition of speaker-specific variation
• Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.