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 speec...

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.