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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. , Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universität Freiburg, 2012. , 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 -- , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 3-11-030432-5

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-306-09180-2

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110305395