Salience in Sociolinguistics: A Quantitative Approach
Berlin ;Boston, MA: De Gruyter Mouton, 2013
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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.
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
Acknowledgements; List of figures; List of tables; 1 Preliminaries; 1.1 Salience and linguistic variation; 1.1.1 Lexical reference and social indexation; 1.1.2 Concepts and notations; 1.1.3 Salience as low probability; 1.2 Structure of the book; 1.2.1 Methodology; 1.2.2 Chapter structure; 1.2.3 The case studies; 1.3 Concluding remarks; 2 Defining Salience; 2.1 Salience as a general term; 2.1.1 Salience in sociolinguistics; 2.1.2 Salience in visual cognition; 2.1.3 Selective attention in hearing; 2.2 Operationalising sociolinguistic salience; 2.2.1 Preliminaries; 2.2.2 Defining salience
2.2.3 Exemplars and transitional probabilities2.3 Concluding remarks; 3 Methodology; 3.1 Cognitive salience: main assumptions and considerations; 3.2 Cognitive salience: further assumptions; 3.3 Step-by-step corpus editing; 3.4 Calculating transitional probabilities; 4 Definite Article Reduction; 4.1 Background; 4.1.1 Details of the process; 4.1.2 DAR as a salient variable; 4.2 Analysis; 4.2.1 Methods; 4.2.2 Salience from token frequency; 4.2.3 Salience from transitional probability; 4.2.4 Further arguments for phonotactic distinctiveness; 4.3 Concluding remarks
5 Glottalisation in the South of England5.1 Background; 5.1.1 Two recent studies; 5.1.2 Salience and glottalisation; 5.2 Analysis; 5.2.1 Methods; 5.2.2 The London-Lund Corpus; 5.2.3 The Spoken Corpus of Adolescent London English; 5.2.4 Modelling results; 5.3 Concluding remarks; 6 Hiatus resolution in Hungarian; 6.1 Background; 6.1.1 The perception of hiatus resolution: Methods; 6.1.2 The perception of hiatus resolution: Results; 6.1.3 Hiatus resolution and naïve linguistic awareness; 6.2 Analysis; 6.2.1 Corpus results; 6.2.2 Main points; 6.3 Concluding remarks; 7 Derhoticisation in Glasgow
7.1 Background7.1.1 Social stratification and social awareness; 7.1.2 Derhoticisation in Glasgow; 7.1.3 /r/ in Glasgow; 7.1.4 Studies on coda /r/; 7.1.5 Interim Summary; 7.2 Analysis; 7.2.1 The FRED study; 7.2.2 Transitional probabilities in coda /r/ realisation; 7.3 Concluding remarks; 7.4 The operationalisation and relevance of salience; 8 Salience and models of the lexicon; 8.1 The relevance of salience; 8.2 The duality of patterning; 8.3 Modelling, phonetic variation and indexation; 8.4 Summary; 9 Salience and language change; 9.1 Speaker indexation in sound change
9.1.1 Approaches to speaker indexation9.1.2 Simulations on the role of indexation; 9.2 Salience in the propagation of a change; 9.2.1 Glottalisation in England; 9.2.2 Derhoticisation in Scotland; 9.3 Concluding remarks; 10 Conclusions; 10.1 The source of salience; 10.1.1 From cognitive properties to language use; 10.1.2 Consequences for phonological modelling; 10.2 The predictability of salience; 10.2.1 Types of phonological change; 10.2.2 Consonants and vowels; 10.2.3 Overview; 10.3 Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index
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Verantwortlichkeitsangabe: | Péter Rácz |
Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Rácz, Peter |
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Veröffentlichung: | Berlin ;Boston, MA: De Gruyter Mouton, 2013 |
Medientyp: | Hochschulschrift, Monographie |
Datenträgertyp: | Elektronische Ressource |
Umfang: | 1 online resource(xvi,167p.) |
ISBN: | 9783110304329 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110305395 |
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