Dialect: Age

Bowie, David

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“…Critically, then, exposure does matter insomuch that it appears that primed variants must be in a speaker's repertoire to affect their production (a constraint of repertoire ), and that, for some of these phonological variables, inclusion in a speaker's repertoire is only coming through long-term second dialect exposure. The fact that shifting is easier where there is already internal variability mirrors arguments in second dialect acquisition that acquisition is easier where there is existing flexibility on a variable (i.e., Bowie, 2000; Sankoff & Blondeau, 2007) and in accommodation tasks, where more convergence is observed when there is already variability in a speaker's production of a variant (e.g., Walker & Campbell-Kibler, 2015:14).…”

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The Role of Dialect Experience in Topic-Based Shifts in Speech Production

Walker

2019

Lang Var Change

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AbstractAn individual's language can change in the moment due to the topic of conversation and over time because of regional mobility. This paper investigates the relationship between these two types of shifts by asking whether speakers with substantial second dialect exposure change their pronunciation more when the topic changes in a regionally meaningful way compared to speakers with less exposure. Specifically, topic-based shifts on three phonological variables that differ between British and US English are investigated in native speakers of both dialects as a function of the migrant status of the speaker. Experience matters in that speakers only shift between variants in their repertoire, and expatriates have acquired some second dialect features that nonmigrants do not have. However, it does not appear that more exposure to, or increased rates of usage of a variant leads to more topic-based shifting toward that variant. These findings, interpreted within the existing literature, suggest that topic-based shifts are driven primarily by stereotypical sociolinguistic representations.

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The Role of Dialect Experience in Topic-Based Shifts in Speech Production

Walker

2019

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“…Mobility has been shown for several languages to influence language change, including in theoretical work (e.g. [3,9,11]) and in studies on different linguistic levels [1,2,5,6,8]. In terms of the speakers' biographical data used for establishing its effects, however, these studies were less complex.…”

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“…Previous dialectological and sociolinguistic studies have researched mobility and exposure to contact in relation to different linguistic aspects (e.g. [1][2][3][5][6][7][8][9]). David Britain's extensive research on the topic underscores the crucial influence of mobility on dialectal variation.…”

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“…She has shown that while mobility does not make a difference in her 1982 survey, in the 2017 survey, women with high mobility have lower probability of speaking dialect. Bowie [6] observed the retention of phonological forms and studied the effect of being exposed to a second dialect quantified by the time that elapsed since his adult speakers moved away from Waldorf, Maryland. For some linguistic variables, he found larger effects the longer the speaker had been gone.…”

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“…To date, quantitative measures of the linguistic exposure of individuals to other dialects have not been determined based on aggregating biographical information. Instead, quantification of linguistic mobility has focused on its foundational aspects, such as assigning rates based on time spent away from a reference locality [5,6,8]. The LMI approach addresses this research gap by systematically constructing an index based on multiple linguistically influential agents and environments that can be extracted from sociodemographic information recorded in linguistic surveys.…”

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Effects of mobility on dialect change: Introducing the linguistic mobility index

Jeszenszky,

Steiner,

Leemann

2024

PLoS ONE

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Increased geographical mobility prompts dialectologists to factor in survey participants’ exposure to linguistic variation in their research. Changing mobility patterns (e.g. longer-distance commuting; easier relocation to distant places for work, study or marriage) have caused linguistic connections to become much more diverse, potentially contributing to the acceleration of dialect change. In this methodological work we propose the Linguistic Mobility Index (LMI) to estimate long-term exposure to dialectal variation and thereby to provide a reference of “localness” about survey participants. Based on data about a survey participant’s linguistic biography, an LMI may comprise combinations of influential agents and environments, such as the dialects of parents and long-term partners, the places where participants have lived and worked, and the participants’ level of education. We encapsulate the linguistic effects of these agents based on linguistic differences, the intensity and importance of the relationship. We quantify the linguistic effects in three steps. 1) The linguistic effect of an agent is represented by a linguistic distance, 2) This linguistic distance is weighted based on the intensity of the participant’s exposure to the agent, and 3) Further weighted according to the relationship embodied by the agent. LMI is conceptualised and evaluated based on 500 speakers from 125 localities in the Swiss German Dialects Across Time and Space (SDATS) corpus, and guidance is provided for establishing LMI in other linguistic studies. For the assessment of LMI’s applicability to other studies, four LMI prototypes are constructed based on the SDATS corpus, employing different theoretical considerations and combinations of influential agents and environments to simulate the availability of biographical data in other studies. Using mixed-effects modelling, we evaluate the utility of the LMI prototypes as predictors of dialect change between historic and contemporary linguistic data of Swiss German. The LMI prototypes successfully show that higher exposure to dialectal variation contributes to more dialect change and that its effect is stronger than some sociodemographic variables that are often tested for affecting dialect change (e.g. sex and educational background).

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Dialect: Age

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The Role of Dialect Experience in Topic-Based Shifts in Speech Production

The Role of Dialect Experience in Topic-Based Shifts in Speech Production

Effects of mobility on dialect change: Introducing the linguistic mobility index

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