Perturbing the community grammar: Individual differences and community-level constraints on sociolinguistic variation
The traditional focus of variationist sociolinguistic research is the patterning of language variation at the level of the community, which individual language users are said to learn and reproduce (Labov 1972; 2012). In this paper, I observe that, although members of a speech community may all have...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-02-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/622 |