Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition Across the Lifespan.

Intro -- Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Bridging contexts to document sociolinguistic variation in acquisition -- References -- Section 1. Child language acquisition and sociolinguistic variation -- Chapter 1. Child language acquisition and sociolinguistic variation -- References -- Chapter 2. Input effects on the acquisition of variation: The case of the French schwa -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The French schwa: A multifaceted variable -- 2.1 Schwa categories -- 2.2 Factors influencing schwa absence or presence -- 3. Variation and constructions -- 3.1 Usage-Based Models and constructions -- 3.2 Frequency effects and phonological variation -- 4. Methodology -- 4.1 Data collection -- 4.2 Corpus annotation -- 4.3 Data selection -- 5. Analysis -- 5.1 General comparison of CDS, ADS and children's speech -- 5.2 Phonological contexts -- 5.3 Focus on the je + VERB context -- 6. Discussion -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 3. The alternation between standard and vernacular pronouns by Belgian Dutch parents in child-oriented control acts -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Control acts -- 1.2 Standard-vernacular variation in control acts -- 1.3 The Dutch language laboratory -- 2. Data and variables -- 2.1 Self-recordings -- 2.2 Response variable: Pronouns of address in control acts -- 2.3 Predictor variables -- 3. Analyses and results -- 3.1 Results of the quantitative analyses -- 3.2 Results of the qualitative analyses -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Appendix A. Transcription conventions -- Appendix B. Overview of collected data -- Appendix C. Multiple correspondence analysis -- Chapter 4. Testing interface and frequency hypotheses: Bilingual children's acquisition of Spanish subject pronoun expression -- Introduction.

Discourse and morphological constraints on Spanish subject pronoun expression -- The Interface Hypothesis and the acquisition of subject pronoun expression -- The Frequency Hypothesis and the acquisition of subject pronoun expression -- This study: Subject pronoun expression among school-age children in the U.S. -- Participants -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- Chapter 5. Acquiring social and linguistic competence: A study on morphological variation in Jakarta Indonesian preschoolers' speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An overview of Jakarta's sociolinguistic situation and its impact on children -- 3. The observed prefixes and the morphological rules -- 4. Method -- Obtaining children's speech data -- 5. Children's stylistic input -- 5.1 Obtaining information on linguistic input -- 5.2 Stylistic input -- 6. Assessing children's stylistic profile -- 7. Applying the morphological rules in different situations -- 8. Results and discussion -- Using the observed prefixes, assessing the situation, and applying the rules -- The use of (+sit+rul) in both situations over time -- The use of (−sit+rul) in both situations over time -- 9. When do children acquire the social and linguistic constraints? -- 10. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- Abbreviations -- References -- Appendix 1. Allomorphs of BI verbal prefix marking transitivity meN- and their CJI counterparts -- Appendix 2. Allomorphs of BI verbal prefix marking intransitivity ber- and their CJI counterparts -- Appendix 3. Elicitation items in four scenarios (in formal and informal situation) -- Appendix 3. Elicitation items in four scenarios (in formal and informal situation) -- Appendix 4. Means of individual ratio on BI and CJI verbs in both situations.

Chapter 6. Children's sociolinguistic preferences: The acquisition of language attitudes within the Austrian standard-dialect-continuum -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sociolinguistic background: German in Austria -- 2.1 Varieties of German in Austria -- 2.2 Patterns of use -- 2.3 The socio-indexical meaning of Austrian German varieties -- 3. Acquisition of attitudes towards varieties of an L1 - results from international studies -- 4. Austrian children's attitudinal preferences in a 'matched-guise' task -- 4.1 Participants -- 4.2 Materials and procedure -- 4.3 Results: Overall attitudinal preferences -- 4.4 Predictors of attitudinal preferences -- 5. Summary and discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 7. Variation in stress in the Jamaican classroom -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phonostylistic variation in children's speech -- 2.1 Vowel length and word-level prominence in English and Jamaican -- 2.2 Stylistic variation -- 3. Methods for data analysis -- 3.1 Vowel duration -- 3.2 Pitch -- 3.3 Loudness -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Teachers -- 4.2 Children -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Section 2. Second language acquisition and dialectal variation in adults -- Chapter 8. Second language acquisition and dialectal variation in adults -- A stable variable, an incoming variable and the L2 speaker -- A stable variable: Ne deletion -- An in-coming variable: Discourse 'like' -- A qualitative perspective: Identity issues and migration -- Current trends in the area of variation and second language acquisition -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9. Navigating variation amid contested norms and societal shifts: A case study of two L2 Mandarin speakers in Singapore -- Introduction -- Research setting -- Language shifts in multilingual singapore -- Features of Singapore Mandarin -- Subjects and methodology.

Speakers' language backgrounds -- Methodology -- Findings -- Variation in retroflex and dental sibilant initials (zh), (ch), (sh), (z), (c), (s) -- Variation in palatal initials (j), (q), (x) -- Variation in (ü) and (i) -- Variation in (ng) and (n) -- Variation in (-uo) -- Variation in (er) -- Other variables: (n-), (r-), (h), (-üan) -- Summary of features -- Impact of the speak Mandarin Campaign -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10. Usage, evaluation and awareness of French sociolinguistic variables by second-language learners during a stay abroad: The case of negative ne and optional liaison -- 1. Sociolinguistic variation in second language research -- 2. Sociolinguistic variables in second language classroom and textbooks -- 3. Awareness and evaluation of sociolinguistic variants -- 4. Purpose of the study -- 5. Methodology -- a. Participants -- b. Sociolinguistic variables -- c. Sociolinguistic interviews -- d. Judgement tasks for the two variables -- e. Questionnaire on sociolinguistic variables -- 6. Results -- a. Optional liaison -- b. Negative ne -- c. Evolution of judgements from T1 to T3 -- 7. Conclusion and discussion -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1. -- Appendix 2. -- Appendix 3. -- Appendix 4. -- Chapter 11. The standard-dialect repertoire of second language users in German-speaking Switzerland -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Constructing a dialect-standard L2 repertoire in an Alemannic context -- 2.1 The relevance of learning sociolinguistic variation in an L2 -- 2.2 Distinguishing dialect and standard language -- 2.3 The ability to align to native speakers and variation in the input -- 3. Methods -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Data -- 3.3 Analysis -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Patterns of dialect and standard use in elicited free speech -- 4.2 Nature of the code-mixing -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- References.

Chapter 12. Identity, authenticity and dialect acquisition: The case of Australian English -- 1. Australian English and national identity -- 2. Acquisition of Australian English as a second dialect -- 2.1 Explanation from previous research -- 2.2 Authenticity and legitimacy -- 3. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 13. Adult learners' (non-) acquisition of speaker-specific variation -- Introduction -- Methods -- Participants -- The language and exposure stimuli -- Experimental procedure -- Experimental manipulation -- Tests -- Results -- Vocabulary test -- Sentence production -- Determiner judgement -- Discussion and conclusion -- Funding -- References -- Index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.