Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation
Edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Matthias Katerbow
[Studies in Language Variation, 20] 2017. vi, 347 pp.
Matthias Katerbow
List of John Benjamins publications for which Matthias Katerbow plays a role.
Title
Subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2017. Chapter 1. Bridging the gap between language acquisition and sociolinguistics: Introduction to an interdisciplinary topic. Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation, De Vogelaer, Gunther and Matthias Katerbow (eds.), pp. 1–41
Despite repeated calls for in-depth research, the acquisition of patterns of sociolinguistic variation has long been an underinvestigated topic both in sociolinguistics and in language acquisition research. With the exception of a few exploratory studies, most notably Labov (1964), it has long been… read more | Chapter
2013. Children’s switching/shifting competence in role-playing. Language Variation - European Perspectives IV: Selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Freiburg, June 2011, Auer, Peter, Javier Caro Reina and Göz Kaufmann (eds.), pp. 145–158
This paper – part of a larger study on the acquisition of variation in a Moselle-Franconian village (Wittlich/Eifel) – deals with data from children’s natural peer-group interactions during salesperson–buyer role-play. While analyzing this data, a large amount of intracontextual variation was… read more | Article