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Peer reviewedSchilling-Estes, Natalie; Wolfram, Walt – Language Variation and Change, 1994
Using the case of a vernacular variety spoken on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, this article demonstrates how linguistic-systemic principles such as remorphologization, psycholinguistic principles of perceptual saliency, and sociolinguistic processes of symbolic identity converge to account for the development of leveling in this community.…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Cognitive Processes, Dialect Studies, Geographic Isolation
Peer reviewedCravens, Thomas D.; Giannelli, Luciano – Language Variation and Change, 1995
Examines the social parameters of acceptance and spread of intervocalic spirantization of "/p/,/t/,/k/" in Tuscany to test the salience of gender and class. This sociolinguistic analysis of the interaction of three options provides a more precise understanding of the significance of gender and class as (co)-conditioners of variation and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Change Agents, Consonants, Data Collection
