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1 online resource (183 pages) : illustrations. |
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computer rdamedia |
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Topics in English linguistics, 1434-3452 ; 84
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universitat Freiburg im Breisgau. |
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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 -- The 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 -- The London-Lund Corpus -- The Spoken Corpus of Adolescent London English -- Modelling results -- Concluding remarks -- Hiatus resolution in Hungarian -- Background -- The perception of hiatus resolution : Methods -- The 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 -- The FRED study -- Transitional probabilities in coda /r/ realisation -- Concluding remarks -- The operationalisation and relevance of salience -- Salience and models of the lexicon -- The relevance of salience -- The 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 -- The source of salience -- From cognitive properties to language use -- Consequences for phonological modelling -- The predictability of salience -- Types of phonological change -- Consonants and vowels -- Overview -- Concluding remarks -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Description based on print version record. |
Subject |
Cognitive grammar.
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Glottalization (Phonetics)
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Language and languages -- Variation.
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Linguistic change.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Racz, Peter. Salience in sociolinguistics : a quantitative approach. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2013 xvi, 167 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Topics in English linguistics ; 84. 9783110304329 |
ISBN |
9783110304329 |
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9783110305395 (electronic bk.) |
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