Salience in Sociolinguistics : : A Quantitative Approach /

Salience in Sociolinguistics : : A Quantitative Approach / / Péter Rácz.

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This work proposes a definition of the notion of salience in sociolinguistics. Salient linguistic variants are those that are easily picked up by the listeners, and these stand in opposition to `invisible' variants, which are, even if they also show complex social stratification, completely ign...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Rácz, Péter,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 84
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Physical Description:1 online resource (167 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • 2. Defining Salience
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Definite Article Reduction
  • 5. Glottalisation in the South of England
  • 6. Hiatus resolution in Hungarian
  • 7. Derhoticisation in Glasgow
  • 8. Salience and models of the lexicon
  • 9. Salience and language change
  • 10. Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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