Chapter 5. Subject–Verb Order Variation in the Swedish of Young People in Multilingual Urban Areas

Ganuza, Natalia

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“…For example, Kotsinas (1998) observed frequent use of uninverted word order (XSV) 6 where Swedish has obligatory verb-second (V2) order (i.e., XVS or SVX). However, Ganuza (2008) showed that XSV was limited to a small group of adolescents, related to a combination of interacting linguistic and sociopragmatic factors, and the apparent frequency of XSV resulted from its salience to native listeners. Other grammatical and discourse features analyzed in connection with multilingual adolescents (Ekberg, 2011; Svensson, 2009; Tingsell, 2007) involved more or less salient markers of a potential new youth variety.…”

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“…Contact between different languages and between different varieties of the same language are both at work in modern-day cities, which are characterized not only by high degrees of international migration but also by intranational mobility. There now exists a considerable literature addressing the question of how contact between different languages impacts local varieties of the majority languages in cities in Europe and North America (see Kotsinas [1988b/2014], Ganuza [2008], and contributions to Källström & Lindberg [2011] for Swedish; Quist & Svendsen [2010] for Scandinavia in general; Schoonen & Appel [2005] for the Netherlands; Quist [2008] for Denmark; Svendsen & Røyneland [2008] for Norway; Wiese [2009] for Germany; and Eckert [2008] for the United States). Although some studies also consider features associated with dialect contact (e.g., Hoffman [2010] and Hoffman & Walker [2010] in Canada; and Cheshire, Kerswill, Fox, & Torgersen [2011] in the United Kingdom), less attention has been paid to the simultaneous effect that urbanization has on bringing dialects in closer contact with each other (but see Nordberg [1994]).…”

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A tale of two cities (and one vowel): Sociolinguistic variation in Swedish

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Previous studies of language contact in multilingual urban neighborhoods in Europe claim the emergence of new varieties spoken by immigrant-background youth. This paper examines the sociolinguistic conditioning of variation in allophones of Swedish /ε:/ of young people of immigrant and nonimmigrant background in Stockholm and Gothenburg. Although speaker background and sex condition the variation, their effects differ in each city. In Stockholm there are no significant social differences and the allophonic difference appears to have been neutralized. Gothenburg speakers are divided into three groups, based on speaker origin and sex, each of which orients toward different norms. Our conclusions appeal to dialectal diffusion and the desire to mark ethnic identity in a diverse sociolinguistic context. These results demonstrate that not only language contact but also dialect change should be considered together when investigating language variation in modern-day cities.

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“…Its aim was to describe, analyze, and compare ways of speaking Swedish and multilingual youth's identity work as it appeared among adolescents in several multilingual areas in the major cities of Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It also aimed to provide multidimensional perspectives on the language practices of young people in contemporary multilingual urban settings in Sweden (e.g., Almér, ; Boyd, ; Boyd, Walker, & Hoffman, ; Ekberg, Opsahl, & Wiese, ; Ganuza, ). Participants in the SUF project were both monolingual Swedes and bilingual immigrant youth.…”

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Language and identity practices among multilingual Western European youths

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2018

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Since the 1980s, an increasing number of studies on youth languages in Europe has appeared. In this paper, a selection of the literature on linguistic practices and identity work by young people in multilingual and multiethnic urban areas in Western Europe is reviewed and discussed. Practices in Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden are focused on. From a bird's eye view, the literature on linguistic practices of urban youth in other West‐ and South‐European countries is reviewed as well. After a sketch of the context in which the first studies on multilingual and multiethnic youth languages appeared, research on youth languages in the five focus countries is presented, followed by a comparison of linguistic characteristics. Specific features from the levels of grammar, lexicon, and pronunciation are used to index social belonging and identity.

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“…Thus, instances of Sen stack han (“Then he left”; ADVERBIAL VERB SUBJECT) alternate with Sen han stack (ADVERBIAL SUBJECT VERB). Possibly due to its salience, this feature is commonly assumed to be much more frequent than empirical evidence has shown it to be; for most of the young people who use it, it is confined to peer-to-peer interactions and specific functions (Ganuza, 2008). Noninversion is also a well-known syntactic feature in learner Swedish, which is probably why it is generally interpreted as an indication of nonnativeness—regardless of the speaker’s actual linguistic background.…”

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“…1 From a social point of view, the variation has been analyzed in terms of new or emerging varieties of the majority language (e.g., Fraurud & Bijvoet, 2004; Kotsinas, 1988; Quist, 2000). Here, two major strands can be discerned: approaches that are mainly descriptive or variationist (Cheshire, Fox, Kerswill, & Torgersen, 2008; Ganuza, 2008; Opsahl & Nistov, 2010; Torgersen, Kerswill, & Fox, 2006; Wiese, 2006, 2009) or those that are more interactionist or ethnographic (Aarsaether, 2010; Haglund, 2010; Jaspers, 2008; Jonsson, 2007; Keim, 2003; Quist, 2005; Rampton, 1995; Werndin, 2010). In a recently concluded research project in Göteborg, Malmö, and Stockholm (the SUF project), various psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic approaches were combined (see Boyd & Fraurud, 2010; Ganuza, 2008; Prentice, 2010; Svensson, 2009; Tingsell, 2007; Werndin, 2010, and contributions in Källström & Lindberg, 2011).…”

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Studying High-Level (L1-L2) Development and Use Among Young People in Multilingual Stockholm

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2012

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This article makes a case for studying the perceptions that young people have of the ways of speaking of both themselves and others on the supposition that constructions of ambient sociolinguistic variation have an impact on the language development and use of individual language users. Such a study is particularly relevant in multilingual contexts in which differences with regard to social as well as ethnic and linguistic background may generate significantly different perceptions. In a speaker evaluation study, Swedish speech stimuli from 12 young Stockholmers were evaluated by 343 listeners from different backgrounds. The results show that young people may divide and relate to the linguistic space of Stockholm in very different ways and that they vary in their degree of accuracy regarding linguistic self-perception.

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Chapter 5. Subject–Verb Order Variation in the Swedish of Young People in Multilingual Urban Areas

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A tale of two cities (and one vowel): Sociolinguistic variation in Swedish

A tale of two cities (and one vowel): Sociolinguistic variation in Swedish

Language and identity practices among multilingual Western European youths

Studying High-Level (L1-L2) Development and Use Among Young People in Multilingual Stockholm

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