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Listeners' sensitivity to the frequency of sociolinguistic variables

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: Introduction Over the past 40 years, studies of linguistic variation have produced a great deal of data on the regular social and stylistic stratification of sociolinguistic variables. Finegrained differences have been observed and replicated in the production of stable sociolinguistic variables like (ING), (DH), or Spanish (S), with significant differences between four or five social levels and four or five stylistic levels (Labov 1966, Trudgill 1974, Cedergren 1973, Weinberg 1974). Figure 1 is a typical product of such studies: the graphic representation of a cross-tabulation of the social and stylistic stratification of (ING) in NYC. The vertical axis is the frequency of the non-standard apical variant in the

Source: Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania)

Authors: William Labov, Sharon Ash, Maciej Baranowski, Naomi Nagy, Maya Ravindranath, Tracey L. Weldon

Language: English

Topic: Linguistic Variation and Morphology

Subfield: Linguistics and Language

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W655782679

FWCI: 13.61

Cites: 9

Cited by: 51

Related to: 10