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Child and adolescent transmission and incrementation in acquisition in historical sociophonetic data from English in Missouri, 1880–2000
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Strelluf, Christopher (2024) Child and adolescent transmission and incrementation in acquisition in historical sociophonetic data from English in Missouri, 1880–2000. In: Sanz-Sánchez, Israel, (ed.) Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives. Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 14 . Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 203-233. ISBN 9789027214591
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.14.09str
Abstract
Phonological conditioning of allophones of /æ/ is typologically important for American Englishes and a site of ongoing sound change. Combining historical and present-day data, this chapter traces productions of /æ/ in the US state of Missouri from the 1880s to 1990s. It reveals a transition to a nasal /æ/ system that progressed via children’s probabilistic calculations, as children initially acquired the /æ/ of their speech community (transmission) and then introduced innovations as they approached adulthood (incrementation). It also posits roots for the actuation of modern-day /æ/-backing in turn-of-the-century associations with high socioeconomic status and/or metropolitan Kansas City, which may have initiated incrementation. These findings highlight the value of historical sociophonetic explorations of sound changes as consequences of cognitive processes of language acquisition.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PE English | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||
Series Name: | Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics | ||||||
Publisher: | John Benjamins | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Amsterdam | ||||||
ISBN: | 9789027214591 | ||||||
Book Title: | Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives | ||||||
Editor: | Sanz-Sánchez, Israel | ||||||
Official Date: | April 2024 | ||||||
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Volume: | 14 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 203-233 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1075/ahs.14.09str | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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