Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Since the 1960s, sociolinguists have been investigating dialect change mainly by using the so-called apparent time method, which compares the spoken language of people from different age groups. In recent decades, researchers have begun to test the apparent time method by combining it with the real time method, which concentrates on the influence of time in the language of a certain speech community or certain individuals. When the samples under investigation are collected by using the same principles and represent the same community at different times, the study can be called a trend survey. A more laborious and rarer method is a longitudinal follow-up study of individual infonnants, a panel survey, which is usually realized as part of a more extensive trend survey. The panel survey became possible when researchers were able to make sound recordings. The earliest follow-up studies, however, only date back a few decades.
Author: Marjatta Palander
Institution: University of Eastern Finland
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2153132307