The relationship between community-wide change and patterns of variation and change within the
individual is one of the cornerstones of variationist theorising. But while sociolinguistic theory makes clear
and testable predictions regarding the use of stable vernacular features across the life-span of the individual,
we lack real-time evidence on the age-graded nature of stable variability. Indeed, whereas apparent time
research highlights the diachronic stability of (ing), only two research projects have explored its use within
the individual speaker. Both report on pre-adult speakers. Our research expands the window of analysis by
adding a later age-bracket to the investigation of age-graded variability. We consider the variable realisation of (ing) in a group of individuals between early adulthood and retirement.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:90963 |
| Date | 18 April 2024 |
| Creators | Mechler, Johanna, Buchstaller, Isabelle |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 2199-174X, 10.1515/lingvan-2018-0024 |
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