| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 167 pages :) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Topics in English linguistics,
1434-3452 ;
84
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Topics in English linguistics ; 84.
1434-3452
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| Note |
Dissertation Freiburg. |
| Summary |
This work proposes a definition of the notion of salience in sociolinguistics. Salient linguistic variants are those that are easily picked up by the listeners, and these stand in opposition to `invisible' variants, which are, even if they also show complex social stratification, completely ignored. Taking a quantitative angle, this work sees salience as a function of relative frequency differences, giving it an empirically testable operationalisation. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preliminaries -- Salience and linguistic Variation -- Lexical reference and social indexation -- Concepts and notations -- Salience as low probability -- Structure of the book -- Methodology -- Chapter structure -- Case studies -- Concluding remarks -- Defining Salience -- Salience as a general term -- Salience in sociolinguistics -- Salience in Visual Cognition -- Selective attention in hearing -- Operationalisingsociolinguistic salience -- Preliminaries -- Defining salience -- Exemplars and transitional probabilities -- Concluding remarks -- Methodology -- Cognitive salience : main assumptions and considerations -- Cognitive salience : further assumptions -- Step-by-step corpus editing -- Calculating transitional probabilities -- Definite Article Reduction -- Background -- Details of the process -- DAR as a salient variable -- Analysis -- Methods -- Salience from token frequency -- Salience from transitional probability -- Further arguments for phonotactic distinctiveness -- Concluding remarks -- Glottalisation in the South of England -- Background -- Two recent studies -- Salience and glottalisation -- Analysis -- Methods -- London-Lund Corpus -- Spoken Corpus of Adolescent London English -- Modelling results -- Concluding remarks -- Hiatus resolution in Hungarian -- Background -- Perception of hiatus resolution : Methods -- Perception of hiatus resolution : Results -- Hiatus resolution and naive linguistic awareness -- Analysis -- Corpus results -- Main points -- Concluding remarks -- Derhoticisation in Glasgow -- Background -- Social stratification and social awareness -- Derhoticisation in Glasgow -- Irl in Glasgow -- Studies on coda/r/ -- Interim Summary -- Analysis -- FRED study -- Transitional probabilities in coda /r/ realisation -- Concluding remarks -- Operationalisation and relevance of salience -- Salience and models of the lexicon -- Relevance of salience -- Duality of patterning -- Modelling, phonetic Variation and indexation -- Summary -- Salience and language change -- Speaker indexation in sound change -- Approachesto Speaker indexation -- Simulations on the role of indexation -- Salience in the propagation of a change -- Glottalisation in England -- Derhoticisation in Scotland -- Concluding remarks -- Conclusions -- Source of salience -- From cognitive properties to language use -- Consequences for phonological modelling -- Predictability of salience -- Types of phonological change -- Consonants and vowels -- Overview -- Concluding remarks -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics.
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Sociolinguistics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rácz, Péter. Salience in sociolinguistics. Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2013 9783110304329 |
| ISBN |
9783110305395 (electronic book) |
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3110305399 (electronic book) |
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9783110304329 |
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3110304325 |
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