Language Change in Real- and Apparent-Time: Coherence in the Individual and the Community [Paperback]

Contents

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Symbols and conventions
Codes and abbreviations

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO LIFESPAN AND COMMUNITY CHANGE             

1.1. Introduction 

1.2. Challenges to the critical-period hypothesis     

1.3. Approaches to studying language change        

1.4. Individual and community patterns of linguistic change

1.5. Theoretical underpinnings and methodological framework for this book     

1.6. Structure and contributions of this book           

 

CHAPTER 2. METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF REAL- AND APPARENT-TIME LANGUAGE CHANGE

2.1. Introduction 

2.2. The Swabian language and people       

2.3. The corpus  

2.4. Data collection and preparation

2.4.1 Step 1: Sample selection

2.4.2 Step 2: Sociolinguistic interview

2.4.3 Step 3: Recording

2.4.4 Step 4: Transcription

2.4.5 Step 5: Validation

2.4.6 Step 6: Annotation   

2.5. The linguistic variable(s)     &lS&