Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change Historical sociolinguistic perspectives Edited by Israel Sanz-Sánchez

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sanz Sánchez, Israel, editor.

Series:

Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 2214-1057 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical linguistics.

Language acquisition.

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology.

Theoretical linguistics.

Local Subjects:

Historical linguistics.

Language acquisition.

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology.

Theoretical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 336 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024

Summary:

This volume connects the latest research on language acquisition across the lifespan with the explanation of language change in specific sociohistorical settings. This conversation benefits from recent advances in two areas: on the one hand, the study of how learners of various ages and in various sociolinguistic contexts acquire language variation; on the other, historical sociolinguistics as the field that focuses on the study of historical patterns of language variation and change. The overarching rationale for this interdisciplinary dialogue is that all forms of language change start and spread as the result of individual acts of acquisition throughout the speakers' lives. The thirteen chapters in this book are authored by an international group of both established and emerging scholars. They encompass theoretical overviews of specific research areas within the broader realm of the acquisition of language variation, as well as case studies applying these theoretical advances to the exploration of language change in a wide range of sociohistorical contexts in the Americas, Oceania, and Asia. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers in the area of language acquisition, language variation and language change, especially those working on interdisciplinary and crosslinguistic connections among these areas. Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Language acquisition across the lifespan in historical sociolinguistics / Israel Sanz-Sánchez

Chapter 2. Monolingual and bilingual child language acquisition and language change / Naomi Shin

Chapter 3. The second language acquisition of variation in adulthood and language change / Kimberly L. Geeslin †, Travis Evans-Sago, Stephen Fafulas and Tom Goebel-Mahrle

Chapter 4. The dynamics of lifelong acquisition in dialect contact and change / Jennifer Hendriks

Chapter 5. Multilingual acquisition across the lifespan as a sociohistorical trigger for language change / Suzanne Aalberse

Chapter 6. Language acquisition across the lifespan and the emergence of new varieties / Devyani Sharma

Chapter 7. Tracing the emergence of the voseo/tuteo semantic split in Río de la Plata second person subjunctives / María Irene Moyna and Pablo E. Requena

Chapter 8. The influences of adult and child speakers in the emergence of Light Warlpiri, an Australian mixed language / Carmel O'Shannessy

Chapter 9. Child and adolescent transmission and incrementation in acquisition in historical sociophonetic data from English in Missouri, 1880-2000 / Christopher Strelluf

Chapter 10. Language dominance across the lifespan in Wisconsin German and English varieties / Samantha Litty

Chapter 11. The contact origin(s) of 'hand' and 'foot' > 'limb' in Antioquian Spanish / Eliot Raynor

Chapter 12. Adult L2 acquisition of for- complementation in Chinese Pidgin English and Hong Kong English / Michelle Li

Chapter 13. Towards an acquisitionally informed historical sociolinguistics / Israel Sanz-Sánchez

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Hardbound version:

ISBN:

9789027247070

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.