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Variable liaison in Parisian French

open access: yes, 2000
This dissertation examines stylistic variation in variable liaison (VL) among middle class speakers of Parisian French. The realization of variable liaison is sensitive to both linguistic and extralinguistic factors.
Moisset, Christine
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Factors Involved in Limited Convergence in (ING) Variation

open access: yes, 2021
As a well-documented variable that exhibits stable variation, (ING) (e.g. workin’ ~ working; Tamminga 2014) provides fertile ground for exploring the influences of social and cognitive factors in speech. In this study, we use (ING) to probe cross-speaker
Horwitz, Sarah
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Persistence in the production of linguistic variation

open access: yes, 2014
This dissertation, which is situated in broad debates over the delineation of abstract grammatical knowledge from the use of language in context, argues for distinct but interacting contributions from grammatical, psychological, and social factors in the
Tamminga, Meredith Johanna
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An Intraspeaker Study of /t/-glottaling in Scottish English

open access: yes, 2019
Recent sociolinguistic research suggests that the previously-stigmatised glottal replacement of /t/ has begun to appear more frequently in more standard varieties of Scots and Scottish English, as well as further south in RP.
Miller, Sophia, Sophia Miller
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Social networks and intraspeaker variation during periods of language change

open access: yes, 2008
Previous work has revealed general characteristics of language change at both the level of linguistic communities as well as individual speakers. What are the properties of language users such that we can account for these characteristics?
Goldrick, Matthew   +2 more
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Lang*Reg corpus: Documenting intraspeaker variation across languages and registers

open access: yes
We present a new corpus design for multi-lingual corpora that involve intra-speaker variation in different situational-functional contexts, including primarily spoken but also the written mode, with the aim towards enhancing language documentation ...
Elisabeth Verhoeven   +6 more
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