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Children’s switching/shifting competence in role-playing

  • Matthias Katerbow
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Language Variation - European Perspectives IV
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Abstract

This paper – part of a larger study on the acquisition of variation in a Moselle-Franconian village (Wittlich/Eifel) – deals with data from children’s natural peer-group interactions during salesperson–buyer role-play. While analyzing this data, a large amount of intracontextual variation was observed. This variation is explained by the fact that the children, who are between the ages of 3;11 and 6;10, have acquired specific registers, i.e. a role-play register and a peer-directed register.

Abstract

This paper – part of a larger study on the acquisition of variation in a Moselle-Franconian village (Wittlich/Eifel) – deals with data from children’s natural peer-group interactions during salesperson–buyer role-play. While analyzing this data, a large amount of intracontextual variation was observed. This variation is explained by the fact that the children, who are between the ages of 3;11 and 6;10, have acquired specific registers, i.e. a role-play register and a peer-directed register.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction vii
  4. Where is syntactic variation? 1
  5. Phonological variation in Catalan and Alemannic from a typological perspective 27
  6. Language ideologies and language attitudes 45
  7. Late language acquisition and identity construction 57
  8. The variation of gender agreement on numerals in the Alpine space 69
  9. ‘Standard usage’ 83
  10. Code alternation patterns in bilingual family conversations 117
  11. A variationist approach to syntactic change 129
  12. Children’s switching/shifting competence in role-playing 145
  13. The Present Perfect in Cypriot Greek revisited 159
  14. Chain shifts revisited 173
  15. And the beat goes on 187
  16. Migrant teenagers’ acquisition of sociolinguistic variation 201
  17. The sociophonology and sociophonetics of Scottish Standard English (r) 215
  18. Stance and code-switching 229
  19. A town between dialects 247
  20. Variation of sibilants in Belarusian-Russian mixed speech 267
  21. The case of [nən] 281
  22. Index 295
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.14.09kat

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction vii
  4. Where is syntactic variation? 1
  5. Phonological variation in Catalan and Alemannic from a typological perspective 27
  6. Language ideologies and language attitudes 45
  7. Late language acquisition and identity construction 57
  8. The variation of gender agreement on numerals in the Alpine space 69
  9. ‘Standard usage’ 83
  10. Code alternation patterns in bilingual family conversations 117
  11. A variationist approach to syntactic change 129
  12. Children’s switching/shifting competence in role-playing 145
  13. The Present Perfect in Cypriot Greek revisited 159
  14. Chain shifts revisited 173
  15. And the beat goes on 187
  16. Migrant teenagers’ acquisition of sociolinguistic variation 201
  17. The sociophonology and sociophonetics of Scottish Standard English (r) 215
  18. Stance and code-switching 229
  19. A town between dialects 247
  20. Variation of sibilants in Belarusian-Russian mixed speech 267
  21. The case of [nən] 281
  22. Index 295
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