Sociolinguistic Variation in Children's Language: Acquiring Community Norms

ISBN-13: 9781107172616 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 232 str.

Jennifer Smith; Mercedes Durham

Opis

Investigates when and how preschool children acquire the vernacular norms of the community they come from.

Recenzje

'For scholars interested in language acquisition, local linguistic variation, style shifting, or the idiosyncratic charms of tiny children, Smith & Durham offer an intriguing text for intellectual consumption.' Rachel Sona Reed, Language in Society

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 3. Getting to grips with the data; 4. Lexical variables; 5. Lexical-phonological variables; 6. Phonetic variables; 7. Morphosyntactic variables; 8. The acquisition of sociolinguistic variation: synthesising our findings.