Talkin’ or talking? Phonological variation in the speech of London teenagers

This paper analyses the (ing) variable in the speech of London teenagers. The study is based on a corpus consisting of approximately five hours of speech collected at Queen Mary’s College, University of London, in October 2012. I argue that the nonstandard form [n], usually associated with the speec...

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Main Author:	Costin-Valentin Oancea
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2015-05-01
Series:	Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
Subjects:	velar nasal alveolar nasal variation variationist sociolinguistics London teenagers
Online Access:	http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/BWPL_2015_1_OANCEA.pdf

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title	Talkin’ or talking? Phonological variation in the speech of London teenagers
title_short	Talkin’ or talking? Phonological variation in the speech of London teenagers
title_full	Talkin’ or talking? Phonological variation in the speech of London teenagers
title_fullStr	Talkin’ or talking? Phonological variation in the speech of London teenagers
title_full_unstemmed	Talkin’ or talking? Phonological variation in the speech of London teenagers
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publisher	Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
series	Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
issn	2069-9239 2069-9239
publishDate	2015-05-01
description	This paper analyses the (ing) variable in the speech of London teenagers. The study is based on a corpus consisting of approximately five hours of speech collected at Queen Mary’s College, University of London, in October 2012. I argue that the nonstandard form [n], usually associated with the speech of boys is frequently used by girls, contrary to the findings found in the literature on (ing).
topic	velar nasal alveolar nasal variation variationist sociolinguistics London teenagers
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Talkin’ or talking? Phonological variation in the speech of London teenagers

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