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[In]stability in the use of a stable variable

  • Johanna Mechler und Isabelle Buchstaller EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 22. Juni 2019

Abstract

The relationship between community-wide change and patterns of variation and change within the individual is one of the cornerstones of variationist theorising. But while sociolinguistic theory makes clear and testable predictions regarding the use of stable vernacular features across the life-span of the individual, we lack real-time evidence on the age-graded nature of stable variability. Indeed, whereas apparent time research highlights the diachronic stability of (ing), only two research projects have explored its use within the individual speaker. Both report on pre-adult speakers. Our research expands the window of analysis by adding a later age-bracket to the investigation of age-graded variability. We consider the variable realisation of (ing) in a group of individuals between early adulthood and retirement.

Award Identifier / Grant number: 321760

Funding statement: European Research Council, Funder Id: 10.13039/100011199, Grant Number: 321760.

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Supplementary Material

The online version of this article offers supplementary material (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2018-0024).


Received: 2018-05-15
Accepted: 2018-11-19
Published Online: 2019-06-22

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