Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan : Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives from Panel Studies (Hardcover)

List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements Panel studies of language variation and change: Theoretical and methodological implications Isabelle Buchstaller and Karen V. Beaman PART I: REVELATIONS FROM PAST TREND AND PANEL STUDIES Chapter 1. The beginnings of panel research: Individual language variation, change and stability in Eskilstuna Eva Sundgren, Isabelle Buchstaller, and Karen V. Beaman Chapter 2. Alignment of individuals with community trends: Subjects from the Portuguese Maria da Conceicao de Paiva, Maria Eugenia L. Duarte, and Gregory R. Guy Chapter 3. Stylistic Variation in Panel Studies of Language Change: Challenge and Opportunity John R. Rickford PART II: INSIGHTS IN THE ANALYSIS OF INTRA-SPEAKER (IN)STABILITY Chapter 4. Individual and group trajectories across adulthood in a sample of Utah English speakers David Bowie Chapter 5. Accent reversion in older adults: evidence from the Queen’s Christmas broadcasts Ulrich Reubold and Jonathan Harrington PART III: A GLIMPSE OF THE PAST: PANEL RESEARCH FROM ARCHIVAL MATERIAL Chapter 6. Exploiting convention: Lifespan change and generational incrementation in the development of cleft constructions William Standing and Peter Petre Chapter 7. Corpus-based lifespan change in Late Middle English Juan Manuel Hernandez-Campoy PART IV: NEW METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR LIFESPAN STUDIES Chapter 8. Exploring the effect of linguistic architecture and heuristic method in panel analysis Isabelle Buchstaller, Anne Krause-Lerche and Johanna Mechler Chapter 9. Loss of historical phonetic contrast across the lifespan: Articulatory, lexical, and social effects on sound change in Swabian Karen V. Beaman and Fabian Tomaschek Chapter 10. Deconfounding the effects of competition and attrition on dialect across the lifespan: A panel study of Swabian R. Harald Baayen, Karen V. Beaman, and Michael Ramscar PART V: FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR PANEL RESERACH Chapter 11. What’s the point of panel studies? Suzanne Evans Wagner Index