Language variation - European Perspectives VII : selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), Malaga, June 2017 / edited by] Juan-Andrés Villena-Ponsoda, Francisco Díaz-Montesinos, Antonio-Manuel Ávila-Muñoz, Matilde Vida-Castro, Universidad de Málaga.

"This volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), which was held at the University of Malaga (Spain), from June 6 to 9, 2017. The volume includes plenaries by Manuel Almeida (Language hybridism: On the origin of interdialectal forms) and Frans Hinskens (Of clocks, clouds and sound change). In addition, the editors have selected 13 papers encompassing different languages and language varieties - not only from large language families, such as Romance and Germanic, but also small language families, like Greek, or smaller languages, like Croatian - and covering a large range of topics on sociolinguistics and linguistic variation. The book displays a contemporary picture of the research currently being conducted on language variation and change in European languages. Readers interested in every field related to language and language use will enjoy a wide variety of theoretical frameworks and methodological perspectives on speech variation, historical sociolinguistics and foreign language acquisition and learning."--

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Language Variation -- European Perspectives VII; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Local committee; Introduction; Scope of the volume; Overview of the chapters; Chapter 1. Language hybridism: On the origin of interdialectal forms; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical aspects: The origin of interdialectal forms; 2.1 The neutrality hypothesis; 2.2 The imperfect learning hypothesis; 2.3 The interdialectal forms in Canarian Spanish; 3. Analysing interdialectal forms; 3.1 Linguistic variables; 3.2 Phonetic distance between vernacular and standard forms

3.3 Individual variation3.4 The role of attitudes; 4. Conclusions; References; Chapter 2. Of clocks, clouds and sound change; 1. Introduction; 2. The Neogrammarian legacy; 3. Formal theory: Generative phonology and Optimality Theory; 3.1 The life cycle of sound change; 3.2 Awareness; 4. Sociolinguistics; 4.1 Exceptionlessness versus lexical diffuseness in the sociolinguistic study of sound change; 5. Cognitivist approaches; 6. Towards an integrated theory; References; Chapter 3. Evaluations of foreign accent in a purist speech community: The case of Iceland; 1. Introduction

2. Evaluating an accent3. The language situation in Iceland; 4. Method; 4.1 Speakers; 4.2 Procedure; 4.3 Survey and data analysis; 5. Results; 5.1 Evaluations of personality traits; 5.2 Gender; 5.3 Age; 6. Discussion; 7. Conclusion; References; Chapter 4. C'era i fascisti e i tedeschi: Instances of linguistic simplification in a corpus of Italiano popolare; 1. Introduction; 2. On italiano popolare; 3. Linguistic simplification in italiano popolare; 4. Research questions and methodology; 5. Analysis; 5.1 New features; 5.2 Case study: Existential constructions; 6. Conclusions; Abbreviations

AcknowledgmentsReferences; Chapter 5. Language change caught in the act: A case study of Frisian relative pronouns; 1. Introduction; 2. Omrop Fryslân; 3. Frisian in the Netherlands; 4. Relative pronouns; 5. Method; 5.1 The data; 5.2 Procedure; 5.3 Analysis; 6. Results; 7. Discussion; 8. Conclusion; References; Chapter 6. Virtual sociolinguistics: From real-time surveying to virtual-time archival sources for tracing change longitudinally; 1. Introduction; 2. Trend study with radio archive sources; 3. Panel study with historical corpora of written correspondence; 4. Conclusion; References

Chapter 7. ASPA Tools or how to measure foreign-accentedness and intelligibility in an objective manner1. Introduction; 2. Existent dialectometric tools; 3. English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and the Lingua Franca Core (LFC); 4. Prototype Theory applied to (foreign) accents; 5. Technical characteristics of ASPA Tools; 5.1 Input/Output data; 5.2 Algorithms; 6. Conclusions and future perspectives; References; Chapter 8. Vowel harmony patterns in Greek dialectal child speech; 1. Introduction; 2. Aims and method of the present study; 3. The data; 4. Discussion; 5. Conclusions; References

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