Language Variation - European Perspectives VIII : : Selected Papers from the Tenth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), Leeuwarden, June 2019.

• Superior document: Studies in Language Variation Series ; v.25
• Author: Van de Velde, Hans.
• TeilnehmendeR: Hilton, Nanna Haug.; Knooihuizen, Remco.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Language Variation Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 pages)

Selected papers from the 10th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, on language varieties ranging from Dutch-Frisian contact varieties to English in Sydney, Australia, and using quantitative and qualitative approaches to linguistic variables, state-of-the-art techniques for speech analysis, and new dialectometrical methods.

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.