Full Description
This new five-volume anthology of major works has been produced in consultation with an editorial advisory board of distinguished scholars. It brings together the key texts of language variation and change to provide a comprehensive collection that represents the field's development and showcases the diverse communities that have been the subjects of investigation.
Contents
Volume V Extensions and Applications of Sociolinguistics: Part 21 Language acquisition 60 Hitting a moving target: acquisition of sound change in progress by Philadelphia children 61 Dialect acquisition 62 The social and linguistic in the acquisition of sociolinguistic norms: caregivers, children, and variation Part 22 Second language acquisition 63 The acquisition of community speech norms by Asian immigrants learning English as a second language: a preliminary study 64 Competing constraints on variation in the speech of adult Chinese learners of English 65 Factors affecting the production of Vietnamese tones: a study of American learners 66 An exploration of the range and frequency of occurrence of forms in potentially variable structures in second-language Spanish Part 23 Variation in sign languages 67 Black Southern signing 68 Phonological variation in American Sign Language: the case of 1 handshape 69 Phonological variation and change in Australian and New Zealand sign languages: the location variable Part 24 Applying sociolinguistics 70 Linguists as agents for social change 71 Operationalizing linguistic gratuity: from principle to practice 72 What is a reading error?
