32.769, Books: The adoption of sound change: Voeten

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Subject: 32.769, Books: The adoption of sound change: Voeten

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Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:29:11
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: The adoption of sound change: Voeten

Title: The adoption of sound change 
Subtitle: Synchronic and diachronic processing of regional variation in Dutch 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-adoption-of-sound-change-synchronic-and-diachronic-processing-of-regional-variation-in-dutch 

Author: Cesko Voeten

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933646 Pages: 249 Price: Europe EURO 33

Abstract:

This dissertation investigates how sound change is adopted by speakers and
listeners, based on a currently-ongoing cluster of changes in Dutch termed the
‘Polder shift’. The main aim of the dissertation is to form a bridge between
five key areas of linguistics: historical phonology, sociophonetics,
psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and quantitative linguistics. A unified
account of these different angles to the study of sound change is not trivial.
This dissertation uses psycholinguistic experiments combined with detailed
quantitative analysis to study the contributions of the different components
to the adoption of sound change in the medium and long term.

The population studied in this dissertation is sociolinguistic migrants: in
this case, Flemish speakers of Dutch who have migrated to the Netherlands, and
thereby migrated from a non-Polder-shift area to a Polder-shift area. The
methods adopted in this dissertation include a corpus study of regional
variation, longitudinal psycholinguistic experiments over nine months’ time,
cross-sectional psycholinguistic experiments spanning multiple decades of
apparent time, and two neurolinguistic studies using EEG. Results show that
the sociolinguistic migrants rapidly acquire allophonic variation at the
phonological level (albeit not necessarily the associated sociolinguistic
knowledge), but that it takes a long time (more than nine months, up to
multiple decades) for this to carry forward to their behavioral production and
perception, and moreover is subject to significant individual differences. The
contributions by this dissertation show how the fundamentally sociolinguistic
phenomenon of sound change can be studied empirically using psycho- and
neurolinguistics, and profit from recent innovations in statistics.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)

Written In: English  (eng)

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