LING316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Simone De Beauvoir, False Dilemma, Componential Analysis
10 Jan 2017
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These are the charts that you needed to know how to read from the previous class. Review the other slides from last class to know the graphs (copy/paste them into notes) In belfast, the milroys looked at a number of variables, e. g. : the backing of a as in. Man which, in the local vernacular, sounds like that of father . (more) Downes mentioned that a number of sociolinguistic studies of variation have reached a similar finding. Namely, in cases of alternation between a standard and a vernacular variant, women tend to use the standard variant more frequently than men do. This distribution is referred to be labov as the typical pattern. women seem to make use of an inordinate amount of standard form. We don"t tend to refer to the typical pattern as men making use of an inordinate amount of non-standard features . Nor do we say they under-use standard variants.
