The theme of this volume is generational trends in language change, with an emphasis on the Baby Boomer to Gen X transition as an important period of time. Many studies have …
Responding to the need for a comprehensive treatment of Mexican American English and its varied influences across multiple generations, this volume provides true insight into how …
From birth to early adulthood, all aspects of a child's life undergo enormous development and change, and language is no exception. This book documents the results of a pioneering …
S Fisher - Publication of the American Dialect Society, 2024 - read.dukeupress.edu
Sociolinguistics has long demonstrated the importance of social networks on linguistic stability as well as the spread of linguistic change (Milroy 1980; Labov 2001). Work within …
Recent work has demonstrated an ongoing change across varieties of English in which/s/retracts before consonants, particularly before/tɹ/clusters (eg, Lawrence, 2000; …
S King, J Calder - American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic …, 2024 - read.dukeupress.edu
While traditional variationist research has been critiqued for positioning ethnic and regional variation in terms of separate “lects,” recent work has adopted a more nuanced view in …
M Brook, BL Jankowski, L Konnelly… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The period from ages 18 to 25 is sometimes called 'emerging adulthood'(Arnett,) since it has come to be characterized by major life transitions. Linguistically, this means that lifespan …
Abstract The Great Migration of African Americans out of the rural South between 1915 and 1970 is the reason why African American Language (AAL) is found across a wide …
J Van Hofwegen - Language & Communication, 2015 - Elsevier
This study analyzes relative accommodation of African American English (AAE) usage in peer interactions for 201 African American adolescent dyads at Grades 6, 8, and 10. A …