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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 May 2019
      23 May 2019
      ISBN:
      9781316779248
      9781107172616
      9781316624289
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316779248
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 232 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.345kg, 236 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Developmental Psychology, Sociolinguistics, Psychology, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Studies in Language Variation and Change
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    Subjects:
    Developmental Psychology, Sociolinguistics, Psychology, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Studies in Language Variation and Change
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    How we vary our speech is fundamental in signalling who we are, where we're from and where we're going. How and when does such variation arise? Here, leading experts Jennifer Smith and Mercedes Durham address this question through a sociolinguistic analysis of the speech of preschool children in interaction with their primary caregivers. Bringing together two fields of linguistic research - variationist sociolinguistics and first language acquisition - the study focusses both qualitative and quantitative analysis of a range of variables to show when and how variation is acquired by young children, and the effect the caregiver's interaction has on this process. In doing so, they tackle a fundamental question in language research: when and how do children acquire the highly complex patterns of variation widely attested in adult speech?

    Reviews

    ‘For scholars interested in language acquisition, local linguistic variation, style shifting, or the idiosyncratic charms of tiny children, Smith & Durham offer an intriguing text for intellectual consumption.’

    Rachel Sona Reed Source: Language in Society

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