A cognitive approach to quantitative sociolinguistic variation: Evidence from th-fronting in Central Scotland

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction. Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics 1
4. Part one: Lexical and lexical-semantic variation
5. Heterodox concept features and onomasiological heterogeneity in dialects 21
6. Measuring and parameterizing lexical convergence and divergence between European and Brazilian Portuguese 41
7. Awesome insights into semantic variation 85
8. Applying word space models to sociolinguistics. Religion names before and after 9/11 111
9. Part two: Constructional variation
10. The English genitive alternation in a cognitive sociolinguistics perspective 139
11. (Not) acquiring grammatical gender in two varieties of Dutch 167
12. Lectal variation in constructional semantics: “Benefactive” ditransitives in Dutch 191
13. Part three: Variation of lectal awareness and attitudes
14. Lectal acquisition and linguistic stereotype formation 223
15. Investigations into the folk’s mental models of linguistic varieties 265
16. A cognitive approach to quantitative sociolinguistic variation: Evidence from th-fronting in Central Scotland 291
17. Backmatter 323