Language Variation and Change
LIN 456 & 1156 (Fall 2022) Readings
Textbooks |
Required articles |
Social Factor Fest |
Formal Fest
Textbooks
Available from U of T Bookstore
- Required textbook: Walker, James. A. 2010. Variation in linguistic systems. NY: Routledge.
- Recommended textbook: Tagliamonte, Sali A. 2006. Analysing sociolinguistic variation. Cambridge: CUP.
The following articles are assigned:
Bayley, R. 2013. Variationist sociolinguistics. Oxford
Handbook of Sociolinguistics. NY: Oxford University Press. 11-30.
Nagy, N. & M. Meyerhoff. 2015. Extending ELAN into Variationist Sociolinguistics. Linguistic Vanguard 1.1:271-281. (updated July 2017)
D'Arcy, A. 2013. Variation and change. Oxford
Handbook of Sociolinguistics. NY: Oxford University Press. 484-502.
Brezina, V. & M. Meyerhoff. 2014. Significant or random? A critical review of
sociolinguistic generalisations based on large corpora. International Journal of
Corpus Linguistics 19.1:1-28.
Tamminga, M. 2011. Getting started with Rbrul for the completely clueless: A basic illustrated guide to the quantitative analysis of categorical linguistic variables. ms.
Walker, J. 2012. Form, function,
and frequency in phonological variation. Language Variation
and Change 24:397–415.
Hay, J., S. Jannedy & N. Mendoza-Denton. 2010. Oprah and /ay/: Lexical frequency, referee design and style. In M. Meyerhoff & E. Schleef. The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader. 53-59.
Nagy, N. 2013. Phonology and sociolinguistics.Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics. NY: Oxford University Press. 425-444.
King, R. 2013. Morphosyntactic variation. Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics. NY: Oxford University Press. 445-463.
Gorman,
K. & D. Johnson. 2013. Quantitative analysis. Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics. NY: Oxford University Press.
11-30.
Owens, J., R. Dodsworth & M. Kohn. 2013. Subject expression and discourse embeddedness in Emirati Arabic. Language Variation and Change
25/3: 255-85
Each student will read one of these articles
(or another
suitable to the topic of social independent variables) for the Social Factor Fest:
Chambers,
J. & A. Lapierre. 2011. Dialect variants in the bilingual belt. Le français en contact: Hommages à Raymond Mougeon. Presses de l'Université Laval. 35-50.
Meyerhoff,
M. 2010. Introducing sociolinguistics.
NY: Routledge. assorted chapters on age, class, gender, social network, Communities of practice.
Nagy, N. HLVC Ethnic Orientation Questionnaire materials.
Nagy,
N. & A. Kochetov. 2013. Voice onset time across
the generations: A cross-linguistic study of contact-induced change. In P.
Siemund, I. Gogolin, M. Schulz, & J. Davydova, eds. Multilingualism and Language
Diversity in Urban Areas. Acquisition, identities, space, education.
Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 19-38. See
pp. 24, 26, 32-34.
Each graduate student will read one of these articles
for the Formal Fest
Adger,
D & J. Smith. 2010. Variation in Agreement: a lexical feature-based approach Lingua 120(5): 1109-1134.
Adger, D., & G. Trousdale. 2007. Variation in English syntax: theoretical implications. English Language & Linguistics, 11(2): 261-278.
Boersma, P., & Hayes, B. 2001. Empirical
tests of the Gradual Learning Algorithm. Linguistic Inquiry 32:
45–86.
Bresnan, J., A. Deo, & D. Sharma. 2007. Typology in variation: a probabilistic approach to be and n't in the Survey of English Dialects. English Language & Linguistics, 11(2): 301-346.
Coetzee,
A., & Pater, J. 2011. The place of variation in phonological theory. In J.
Goldsmith, J. Riggle, & A. Yu (eds.). Handbook
of phonological theory, 2nd ed. 401–434. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Embick,
D. 2008. Variation and Morphosyntactic Theory: Competition Fractionated. Language and Linguistics Compass 2/1:
59-78, 10.1111/j.1749-818x.2007.00038.x.
Henry,
A. 1995. Belfast English and
Standard English: Dialect variation and parameter setting. Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press. [book! – maybe there's a shorter article?]
Kroch, A. 1994. Morphosyntactic
variation. Papers from the 30th Regional
Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society: Parasession on Variation and
Linguistic Theory. In K. Beals, ed. 180–201. Chicago, IL: Chicago
Linguistic Society.
Meyerhoff, Miriam. 2015. Turning variation on its head: Analysing subject prefixes in Nkep (Vanuatu) for language documentation. Asia-Pacific Language Variation 1.1:78 – 108
Nagy, N. & B. Reynolds. 1997. Optimality
theory and variable word-final deletion in Faetar. Language
Variation and Change 9.1:37-56.
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Sept. 21, 2022
