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Language variation--European perspectives VIII : selected papers from the tenth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), Leeuwarden, June 2019 /

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"This volume contains a selection of papers from the 10th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), which was organized by the Fryske Akademy and held in Leeuwarden/Ljouwert (the Netherlands) in June 2019. The editors have selected thirteen papers on a wide range of...

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Corporate Author: International Conference on Language Variation in Europe Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Other Authors: Velde, Hans van de, 1969- (Editor), Hilton, Nanna Haug (Editor), Knooihuizen, Remco (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021.
Series:Studies in language variation, volume 25
Subjects:
Language and languages > Variation > Congresses.
Europe > Languages > Variation > Congresses.
Variation (Linguistique) > Congrès.
Europe > Langues > Variation > Congrès.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics.
Language and languages > Variation
Europe
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Language Variation
  • European Perspectives VIII
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Plenaries
  • Panels
  • Thematic sessions
  • This volume
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Chapter 1. The volatile linguistic shape of 'Town Frisian'/'Town Hollandic'
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The linguistic character of Town Frisian
  • 3. Changes in Frisian that made Town Frisian similar to Frisian
  • 3.1 15th-century changes in Frisian
  • 3.2 Convergence of Frisian with Dutch and/or Town Frisian in the 16th to 19th centuries
  • 4. Changes in Town Frisian after the establishment of Dutch L1 varieties in Friesland
  • 5. Dual route phenomena
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 2. Is there an interlanguage speech acceptability deficit?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Method
  • 2.1 Materials
  • 2.2 Structure and design of the survey
  • 2.3 Participants and procedure
  • 3. Results
  • 3.1 Judges' ability to identify matched and non-matched accents
  • 3.2 Evaluation of matched versus non-matched NNE accents
  • 4. Discussion and conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 3. Revisiting the vowel mergers of East Anglia: Correlations of moan, mown and goose
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
  • 2.1 The moan/mown merger
  • 2.2 The goose/moan merger
  • 3. Methods
  • 3.1 Speaker sample
  • 3.2 Recording, data extraction and coding
  • 3.3 Statistical analysis
  • 4. Results
  • 4.1 The moan/mown merger
  • 4.2 The goose/moan merger
  • 4.3 goose fronting
  • 5. Discussion
  • 5.1 The moan/mown merger
  • 5.2 The goose/moan merger
  • 5.3 goose fronting
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix 1. Fixed effects linear regression analysis of the moan/mown merger
  • Appendix 2. Fixed effects linear regression analysis of the goose/moan merger (nuclei).
  • Appendix 2. Fixed effects linear regression analysis of the goose/moan merger (nuclei)
  • Appendix 3. Fixed effects linear regression analysis of the goose/moan merger (offglides)
  • Appendix 3. Fixed effects linear regression analysis of the goose/moan merger (offglides)
  • Appendix 4. Mixed effects linear regression analysis of goose F2
  • Chapter 4. Modeling regional variation in voice onset time of Jutlandic varieties of Danish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical preliminaries
  • 2.1 Voice onset time
  • 2.2 Danish plosives
  • 2.3 The dialects of Jutland
  • 2.4 Language variation and geography
  • 3. Methodology
  • 3.1 Corpus
  • 3.2 Token selection
  • 3.3 Acoustic analysis
  • 3.4 Statistical modeling
  • 4. Results
  • 4.1 Descriptive statistics
  • 4.2 Generalized additive mixed model
  • 5. Discussion and conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 5. "Organically German"?: Changing ideologies of national belonging
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. German ethnicity, citizenship and belonging: Concepts and policies
  • 2.1 Ethnicity
  • 2.2 Immigration and citizenship
  • 3. Discourses of belonging
  • 3.1 Discourses of ethnonational ideology
  • 3.2 Integration and belonging: Discourses of exclusion and inclusion
  • 3.3 Post-national discourse
  • 4. The term Biodeutsche(r)
  • 5. Methodology: Media data
  • 6. Overview of term and its meanings
  • 6.1 Biodeutsche(r): Challenging ethnonational ideology
  • 6.2 Missing the joke: Reclaiming Biodeutsche(r)
  • 7. Discussion and conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 6. Exploring an approach for modelling lectal coherence
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data and methods
  • 2.1 Speech communities
  • 2.2 Swabian corpus
  • 2.3 Linguistic variables
  • 2.4 Extra-linguistic predictors
  • 3. Analysis and results
  • 3.1 Linguistic variables
  • 3.2 Dialect change in Swabia
  • 3.3 Lectal coherence.
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 7. "I'm dead posh in school": Attitudes and linguistic behaviour of Merseyside adolescents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Merseyside English
  • 2.1 Indexicality and enregisterment
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Results
  • 4.1 Quantitative data
  • 4.2 Perceptions of scouse: Linguistic features
  • 4.3 Perceptions of scouse identity
  • 4.4 (In)authenticity and covert prestige
  • 4.5 Style-shifting and perceptions of class
  • 4.6 Impact of attitudes upon square and nurse production
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 8. Benim: A new pronoun in Swedish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Stockholm: Europe's first-documented multiethnolect
  • 1.2 Slang and symbolic distinction
  • 2. Research aims
  • 3. Data: A corpus of Stockholmian hip hop
  • 4. Syntactic use of benim
  • 5. Socio-indexical pragmatics of benim
  • 6. Social profile of benim users
  • 6.1 Ethnic and national heritage
  • 6.2 Social class
  • 6.3 Gender
  • 7. The evolution of benim: A hypothesis
  • 7.1 The Turkish use of 'benim' and its dominance in the feature pool
  • 7.2 Left dislocation in the Nordic languages
  • 7.3 Benim as a left-dislocated noun in an illeist construction
  • 7.4 Grammatical constructionalization of 'benim han e' to 'benim'
  • 7.5 Summarizing the proposed evolutionary trajectory of 'benim'
  • 8. Benim in historical context
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Discography
  • Chapter 9. Identification of clusters of lexical areas using geographical factors: A case study in the Occitan language area
  • 1. Context
  • 2. Method
  • 2.1 Representation space
  • 2.2 Barycentric projection
  • 2.3 Clustering
  • 3. Implementation of the method
  • 3.1 Visual exploration
  • 3.2 Cluster characterization
  • 4. Case study: Occitan
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Bibliography.
  • Chapter 10. (Il)literacy and language change: Non-standard relative constructions in historical Basque
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Basque and Romance relativisation strategies
  • 3. Writing in Basque before the twentieth century
  • 3.1 The historical sociolinguistics of Basque
  • 3.2 Literacy and biliteracy
  • 4. Zein RCs in administrative texts and letters
  • 4.1 Basque historical corpus
  • 4.2 The frequency of zein RCs
  • 4.3 Non-standard variants
  • 4.4 Zein relatives and formulaic language
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Abbreviations and glossing conventions
  • Funding
  • References
  • Chapter 11. Dialect contact in the vowel system of Mišótika Cappadocian
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Historical and linguistic background
  • 3. Data and methodology
  • 4. Results
  • 4.1 Neo Agioneri
  • 4.2 Xirochori
  • 5. Discussion
  • 5.1 The vowels [œ, y, ɯ, æ]
  • 5.2 The vowels [i, e, a, o, u]
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Funding
  • References
  • Chapter 12. Leaders of language change: Macro and micro perspectives
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Philadelphia vowel changes
  • 3. Data
  • 4. Are covariation patterns stable over time?
  • 4.1 Statistical methods
  • 4.2 Results
  • 5. Can we predict individual differences within the changes that covary?
  • 5.1 The individual differences measures
  • 5.2 Statistical methods
  • 5.3 Results
  • 6. Discussion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
  • Chapter 13. Ethnic variation in real time: Change in Australian English diphthongs
  • 1. Ethnic and ethnolectal variation
  • 2. Variation in Australian English
  • 3. Changing ethnic diversity in Australia
  • 4. Data for the study of ethnic variation over time
  • 4.1 Participants
  • 4.2 Speech data
  • 5. Australian English in real time
  • 5.1 Ethnic variation in Young Adult Australians in the 2010s
  • 5.2 Anglo-Australians over time
  • 5.3 Anglo and Italians over time.
  • 5.4 Ethnic and gender variation in Young Adult Australians in the 2010s
  • 6. Migrants and the progression of change
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Index.