Salience in sociolinguistics : : a quantitative approach / / Peter Racz.

• Author: Racz, Peter.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton,, [2013]; 2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English linguistics, 84
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (183 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universitat Freiburg im Breisgau.
• Other title: Preliminaries --; Salience and linguistic Variation --; Lexical reference and social indexation --; Concepts and notations --; Salience as low probability --; Structure of the book --; Methodology --; Chapter structure --; The case studies --; Concluding remarks --; Defining Salience --; Salience as a general term --; Salience in sociolinguistics --; Salience in Visual Cognition --; Selective attention in hearing --; Operationalisingsociolinguistic salience --; Defining salience --; Exemplars and transitional probabilities --; Cognitive salience : main assumptions and considerations --; Cognitive salience : further assumptions --; Step-by-step corpus editing --; Calculating transitional probabilities --; Definite Article Reduction --; Background --; Details of the process --; DAR as a salient variable --; Analysis --; Methods --; Salience from token frequency --; Salience from transitional probability --; Further arguments for phonotactic distinctiveness --; Glottalisation in the South of England --; Two recent studies --; Salience and glottalisation --; The London-Lund Corpus --; The Spoken Corpus of Adolescent London English --; Modelling results --; Hiatus resolution in Hungarian --; The perception of hiatus resolution : Methods --; The perception of hiatus resolution : Results --; Hiatus resolution and naive linguistic awareness --; Corpus results --; Main points --; Derhoticisation in Glasgow --; Social stratification and social awareness --; Irl in Glasgow --; Studies on coda/r/ --; Interim Summary --; The FRED study --; Transitional probabilities in coda /r/ realisation --; The operationalisation and relevance of salience --; Salience and models of the lexicon --; The relevance of salience --; The duality of patterning --; Modelling, phonetic Variation and indexation --; Summary --; Salience and language change --; Speaker indexation in sound change --; Approachesto Speaker indexation --; Simulations on the role of indexation --; Salience in the propagation of a change --; Glottalisation in England --; Derhoticisation in Scotland --; Conclusions --; The source of salience --; From cognitive properties to language use --; Consequences for phonological modelling --; The predictability of salience --; Types of phonological change --; Consonants and vowels --; Overview --
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9783110304329; 9783110305395
• ISSN: 1434-3452
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Racz.