LIN 207- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)
12 Oct 2017
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Studying age and variation: two basic approaches: Real time: comparing speech of same speakers over time (longitudinally: advantages, disadvantages: Apparent time: comparing speakers from different age cohorts, at a single moment in time: two basic approaches: The way people talk is set early in life. Looking at different age cohorts will tell you how people talked at the time that they acquired their speech patterns: advantages and disadvantages. Sometimes results from real time and apparent time studies differ. Age grading: young people typically use more non-standard variants. Non-standard usage is usually low in early childhood, Linguistic marketplace: social capital attached to how you speak, some jobs depend on that social capital. Real time: sankoff and blondeau 2003: longitudinal study of montreal french speakers. Most people stay relatively stable across their lifspan. But not everyone: some people change a lot across the lifespan and continue to change well into adulthood.
