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You might hypothesize that this movement from strong to weak verbs would be over and done with so many hundreds of years after i ...

There are many other kinds and points of variation in the verb systems of American English, some of which have been tracked for ...

Figure 2.11 Past participles for to drink over space Source: Atwood (1953: 20) Verbs are a particular point of contention for mo ...

Structured variation: the hidden life of language The examples of variation in language presented here might seem, at first glan ...

geography, gender and age. Language markers can be emblematic for dozens of different kinds of social allegiances. National orig ...

*SAE? How do these labels get attached to specific points of variation, and to what end? Before we pursue those issues, we need ...

Attached to the Wikipedia page for the Northern Cities vowel/chain shift is a “talk” page where people can comment or make sugge ...

2 To look at this another way, some people see the broadcast media as immensely powerful and influential. So powerful, in fact, ...

Trudgill, P. (1997) Acts of Conflicting Identity: The Sociolinguistics of British Pop-Song Pronunciation. In N. Coupland (ed.) S ...

The Myth of Non-Accent 3 The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers h ...

In a more technical sense, accent is used to distinguish stress in words (The accent is on the second syllable in baNAna) or int ...

3. Segmental features. We acquire, as part of our first language, the sounds of the language which fall into two major categorie ...

L1 and L2 Accents What we call L1 accent is really no more than what we have been discussing all along: structured variation in ...

Two varieties of a single language are distinguished by accent when differences are restricted primarily to phonology (prosodic ...

the majority of the emblematic work of variation is carried out below the level of consciousness. Given these facts, what is non ...

James Kahakua, a native of Hawai’i, wanted to read prepared weather forecasts on the radio. He was refused promotion because his ...

At some time in adolescence, the ability to acquire language with the same ease as young children atrophies.^5 There are as yet ...

inventory of sounds in relationship to each other; she puts up walls, plans the space: she is constructing her phonology. The bl ...

how to get back to the warehouse? She’ll have to improvise. She’s a smart woman, she can make a brick, cut down a tree. She exam ...

When people come to visit her in her Spanish Sound House, they are amazed to find out that it’s not her first construction. They ...