Dynamics, variation and the brain
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Jürgen Erich Schmidt
Abstract
German dialects offer an unparalleled data situation for carrying out fine-grained research on language change. On the basis of empirical data, phonetic-cum-phonological change can be traced back over 100 years in time and space. Which factors play a role in triggering the different types of sound change can be determined on the basis of the available data. It will be demonstrated how neurolinguistic methods can be applied to study speaker-listener constellations between language varieties in contact with one another. Linguistic stability, word for word phonological change and the rapid change of phonemes as a whole are accompanied by differing physiological processes in the brain for the speaker and the listener.
Abstract
German dialects offer an unparalleled data situation for carrying out fine-grained research on language change. On the basis of empirical data, phonetic-cum-phonological change can be traced back over 100 years in time and space. Which factors play a role in triggering the different types of sound change can be determined on the basis of the available data. It will be demonstrated how neurolinguistic methods can be applied to study speaker-listener constellations between language varieties in contact with one another. Linguistic stability, word for word phonological change and the rapid change of phonemes as a whole are accompanied by differing physiological processes in the brain for the speaker and the listener.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
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Plenaries
- Analytic and synthetic 3
- A case for clustering speakers and linguistic variables 23
- Dynamics, variation and the brain 47
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Individual chapters
- Aggregate analysis of lexical variation in Galician 71
- Inter-individual variation among young children growing up in a bidialectal community 85
- The unruly dialect variant [a] 99
- Vowel raising and vowel deletion as sociolinguistic variables in Northern Greek 113
- Between local and standard varieties 125
- Syntactic doubling and variation 141
- Variation in style 157
- A corpus-based study of concessive conjunctions in three L1-varieties of English 173
- Variation in the structure of conjunctions in Luxembourgish German in the 19th century 185
- Geolinguistic documentation of multilingual areas 199
- Variation in Croatian 215
- Index 233
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
-
Plenaries
- Analytic and synthetic 3
- A case for clustering speakers and linguistic variables 23
- Dynamics, variation and the brain 47
-
Individual chapters
- Aggregate analysis of lexical variation in Galician 71
- Inter-individual variation among young children growing up in a bidialectal community 85
- The unruly dialect variant [a] 99
- Vowel raising and vowel deletion as sociolinguistic variables in Northern Greek 113
- Between local and standard varieties 125
- Syntactic doubling and variation 141
- Variation in style 157
- A corpus-based study of concessive conjunctions in three L1-varieties of English 173
- Variation in the structure of conjunctions in Luxembourgish German in the 19th century 185
- Geolinguistic documentation of multilingual areas 199
- Variation in Croatian 215
- Index 233
