[Corpora-List] Linguistics, corpus linguistics, and diglossia

[John F. Sowa]

On 12/17/2010 12:45 PM, Mike Maxwell wrote:
> I'm sure corpus linguists have pondered this.  How do they study things
> like "ain't", "y'all", "youse", "youse-uns", "might could", and other
> non-standard constructions?

A friend of mine, who was analyzing Hawaiian Creole, asked one of
her students to put a tape recorder under the kitchen table at home.

In interviews, the native creole speakers would always "correct
themselves", but they only spoke freely after they forgot that
the recorder was running.

John Sowa

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