Sociolinguistic Variation in Children's Language : Acquiring Community Norms
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Language Variation and Change
ISBN-10
1107172616
ISBN-13
9781107172616
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 23rd, 2019
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
510 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.60 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
SociolinguisticsChild & developmental psychology
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Aimed at sociolinguists and researchers of child language acquisition, as well as psychologists and educationalists, this book analyses the development of dialect in preschool children, in interaction with their primary caregivers.
How we vary our speech is fundamental in signalling who we are, where we''re from and where we''re going. How and when does such variation arise? Here, leading experts Jennifer Smith and Mercedes Durham address this question through a sociolinguistic analysis of the speech of preschool children in interaction with their primary caregivers. Bringing together two fields of linguistic research - variationist sociolinguistics and first language acquisition - the study focusses both qualitative and quantitative analysis of a range of variables to show when and how variation is acquired by young children, and the effect the caregiver''s interaction has on this process. In doing so, they tackle a fundamental question in language research: when and how do children acquire the highly complex patterns of variation widely attested in adult speech?
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