UID:
almafu_9959245983802883
Format:
1 online resource (184 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-11-030539-9
Series Statement:
Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 84
Content:
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.
Note:
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Freiburg im Breisgau.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universität Freiburg, 2012.
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Preliminaries --
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Salience and linguistic Variation --
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Lexical reference and social indexation --
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Concepts and notations --
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Salience as low probability --
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Structure of the book --
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Methodology --
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Chapter structure --
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The case studies --
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Concluding remarks --
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Defining Salience --
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Salience as a general term --
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Salience in sociolinguistics --
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Salience in Visual Cognition --
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Selective attention in hearing --
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Operationalisingsociolinguistic salience --
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Preliminaries --
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Defining salience --
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Exemplars and transitional probabilities --
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Concluding remarks --
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Methodology --
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Cognitive salience : main assumptions and considerations --
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Cognitive salience : further assumptions --
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Step-by-step corpus editing --
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Calculating transitional probabilities --
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Definite Article Reduction --
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Background --
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Details of the process --
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DAR as a salient variable --
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Analysis --
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Methods --
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Salience from token frequency --
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Salience from transitional probability --
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Further arguments for phonotactic distinctiveness --
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Concluding remarks --
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Glottalisation in the South of England --
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Background --
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Two recent studies --
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Salience and glottalisation --
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Analysis --
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Methods --
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The London-Lund Corpus --
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The Spoken Corpus of Adolescent London English --
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Modelling results --
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Concluding remarks --
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Hiatus resolution in Hungarian --
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Background --
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The perception of hiatus resolution : Methods --
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The perception of hiatus resolution : Results --
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Hiatus resolution and naive linguistic awareness --
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Analysis --
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Corpus results --
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Main points --
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Concluding remarks --
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Derhoticisation in Glasgow --
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Background --
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Social stratification and social awareness --
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Derhoticisation in Glasgow --
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Irl in Glasgow --
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Studies on coda/r/ --
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Interim Summary --
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Analysis --
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The FRED study --
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Transitional probabilities in coda /r/ realisation --
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Concluding remarks --
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The operationalisation and relevance of salience --
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Salience and models of the lexicon --
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The relevance of salience --
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The duality of patterning --
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Modelling, phonetic Variation and indexation --
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Summary --
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Salience and language change --
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Speaker indexation in sound change --
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Approachesto Speaker indexation --
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Simulations on the role of indexation --
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Salience in the propagation of a change --
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Glottalisation in England --
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Derhoticisation in Scotland --
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Concluding remarks --
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Conclusions --
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The source of salience --
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From cognitive properties to language use --
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Consequences for phonological modelling --
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The predictability of salience --
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Types of phonological change --
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Consonants and vowels --
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Overview --
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Concluding remarks --
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-030432-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-306-09180-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110305395