Full Description
The study of how linguistic variation is acquired is considered a nascent field in both psycho- and sociolinguistics. Within that research context, this book aims at two objectives. First, it wants to help bridging the gap between researchers working on acquisition from different theoretical backgrounds. The book therefore includes contributions by both psycho- and sociolinguists, and by representatives of further relevant sub-disciplines of linguistics, including historical linguistics and dialectology. Second, in order to enable cross-linguistic comparison, the book brings together research carried out in different sociolinguistic constellations, as most obviously found in different language areas or different countries.
Contents
1. Chapter 1. Bridging the gap between language acquisition and sociolinguistics: Introduction to an interdisciplinary topic (by De Vogelaer, Gunther); 2. Chapter 2. The effects of exposure on awareness and discrimination of regional accents by five- and six year old children (by Beck, Erica); 3. Chapter 3. How do social networks influence children's stylistic practices?: Social Mixing, Macro/Micro Analysis and Methodological Questions (by Buson, Laurence); 4. Chapter 4. Child acquisition of sociolinguistic variation: Adults, children and (regional) standard Dutch two-verb clusters in one community (by Cornips, Leonie); 5. Chapter 5. Acquiring attitudes towards varieties of Dutch: A quantitative perspective (by De Vogelaer, Gunther); 6. Chapter 6. What is the target variety?: The diverse effects of standard-dialect variation in second language acquisition (by Ender, Andrea); 7. Chapter 7. The relationship between segregation and participation in ethnolectal variants: A longitudinal study (by Farrington, Charlie); 8. Chapter 8. Socializing language choices: When variation in the language environment supports acquisition (by Ghimenton, Anna); 9. Chapter 9. Language acquisition in bilectal environments: Competing motivations, metalinguistic awareness, and the Socio-Syntax of Development Hypothesis (by Leivada, Evelina); 10. Chapter 10. Acquisition of phonological variables of a Flemish dialect by children raised in Standard Dutch: Some considerations on the learning mechanisms (by Rys, Kathy); 11. Chapter 11. Developmental sociolinguistics and the acquisition of T-glottalling by immigrant teenagers in London (by Schleef, Erik)
