31.1858, Books: Sociolinguistic Variation in Children's Language: Smith, Durham

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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2020 14:11:55
From: Dan Iredale [diredale at cambridge.org]
Subject: Sociolinguistic Variation in Children's Language: Smith, Durham

 


Title: Sociolinguistic Variation in Children's Language 
Subtitle: Acquiring Community Norms 
Series Title: Studies in Language Variation and Change  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/sociolinguistic-variation-childrens-language-acquiring-community-norms?localeText=United+States&locale=en_US&query=&remember_me=on 


Author: Jennifer Smith
Author: Mercedes Durham

Electronic: ISBN:  9781316782057 Pages: 232 Price: U.S. $ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107172616 Pages: 232 Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107172616 Pages: 232 Price: U.K. £ 85.00


Abstract:

How we vary our speech is fundamental in signalling who we are, where we're
from and where we're going. How and when does such variation arise? Here,
leading experts Jennifer Smith and Mercedes Durham address this question
through a sociolinguistic analysis of the speech of preschool children in
interaction with their primary caregivers. Bringing together two fields of
linguistic research - variationist sociolinguistics and first language
acquisition - the study focusses both qualitative and quantitative analysis of
a range of variables to show when and how variation is acquired by young
children, and the effect the caregiver's interaction has on this process. In
doing so, they tackle a fundamental question in language research: when and
how do children acquire the highly complex patterns of variation widely
attested in adult speech?

1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Getting to grips with the data
4. Lexical variables
5. Lexical-phonological variables
6. Phonetic variables
7. Morphosyntactic variables
8. The acquisition of sociolinguistic variation: synthesising our findings.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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