Language variation - European perspectives VII : Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), Malaga, June 2017

This volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), which was held at the University of Malaga (Spain), from June 6 to 9, 2017. The volume includes plenaries by Manuel Almeida ("Language hybridism: On the origin of interdialectal forms") and Frans Hinskens ("Of clocks, clouds and sound change"). In addition, the editors have selected 13 papers encompassing different languages and language varieties - not only from large language families, such as Romance and Germanic, but also small language families, like Greek, or smaller languages, like Croatian - and covering a large range of topics on sociolinguistics and linguistic variation. The book displays a contemporary picture of the research currently being conducted on language variation and change in European languages. Readers interested in every field related to language and language use will enjoy a wide variety of theoretical frameworks and methodological perspectives on speech variation, historical sociolinguistics and foreign language acquisition and learning. Read more... Intro Language Variation -- European Perspectives VII Editorial page Title page Copyright page Table of contents Preface Local committee Introduction Scope of the volume Overview of the chapters Chapter 1. Language hybridism: On the origin of interdialectal forms 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical aspects: The origin of interdialectal forms 2.1 The neutrality hypothesis 2.2 The imperfect learning hypothesis 2.3 The interdialectal forms in Canarian Spanish 3. Analysing interdialectal forms 3.1 Linguistic variables 3.2 Phonetic distance between vernacular and standard forms 3.3 Individual variation3.4 The role of attitudes 4. Conclusions References Chapter 2. Of clocks, clouds and sound change 1. Introduction 2. The Neogrammarian legacy 3. Formal theory: Generative phonology and Optimality Theory 3.1 The life cycle of sound change 3.2 Awareness 4. Sociolinguistics 4.1 Exceptionlessness versus lexical diffuseness in the sociolinguistic study of sound change 5. Cognitivist approaches 6. Towards an integrated theory References Chapter 3. Evaluations of foreign accent in a purist speech community: The case of Iceland 1. Introduction 2. Evaluating an accent3. The language situation in Iceland 4. Method 4.1 Speakers 4.2 Procedure 4.3 Survey and data analysis 5. Results 5.1 Evaluations of personality traits 5.2 Gender 5.3 Age 6. Discussion 7. Conclusion References Chapter 4. C'era i fascisti e i tedeschi: Instances of linguistic simplification in a corpus of Italiano popolare 1. Introduction 2. On italiano popolare 3. Linguistic simplification in italiano popolare 4. Research questions and methodology 5. Analysis 5.1 New features 5.2 Case study: Existential constructions 6. Conclusions Abbreviations AcknowledgmentsReferences Chapter 5. Language change caught in the act: A case study of Frisian relative pronouns 1. Introduction 2. Omrop Fryslân 3. Frisian in the Netherlands 4. Relative pronouns 5. Method 5.1 The data 5.2 Procedure 5.3 Analysis 6. Results 7. Discussion 8. Conclusion References Chapter 6. Virtual sociolinguistics: From real-time surveying to virtual-time archival sources for tracing change longitudinally 1. Introduction 2. Trend study with radio archive sources 3. Panel study with historical corpora of written correspondence 4. Conclusion References Chapter 7. ASPA Tools or how to measure foreign-accentedness and intelligibility in an objective manner1. Introduction 2. Existent dialectometric tools 3. English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and the Lingua Franca Core (LFC) 4. Prototype Theory applied to (foreign) accents 5. Technical characteristics of ASPA Tools 5.1 Input/Output data 5.2 Algorithms 6. Conclusions and future perspectives References Chapter 8. Vowel harmony patterns in Greek dialectal child speech 1. Introduction 2. Aims and method of the present study 3. The data 4. Discussion 5. Conclusions References "This volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), which was held at the University of Malaga (Spain), from June 6 to 9, 2017. The volume includes plenaries by Manuel Almeida (Language hybridism: On the origin of interdialectal forms) and Frans Hinskens (Of clocks, clouds and sound change). In addition, the editors have selected 13 papers encompassing different languages and language varieties - not only from large language families, such as Romance and Germanic, but also small language families, like Greek, or smaller languages, like Croatian - and covering a large range of topics on sociolinguistics and linguistic variation. The book displays a contemporary picture of the research currently being conducted on language variation and change in European languages. Readers interested in every field related to language and language use will enjoy a wide variety of theoretical frameworks and methodological perspectives on speech variation, historical sociolinguistics and foreign language acquisition and learning."-- Provided by publisher