Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards
Edited by Philipp Meer and Ryan Durgasingh
[Studies in Language Variation, 32] 2025. viii, 196 pp. + index
Philipp Meer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Philipp Meer plays a role.
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Subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
2025 Chapter 9. Pluricentricity AND pluriareality: Building the case for complementarity Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards, Meer, Philipp and Ryan Durgasingh (eds.), pp. 187–195 | Chapter
Moving beyond the contention which has characterized the pluricentricity and pluriareality debate, this summative chapter draws together the argumentative strands in the chapters in the volume to build the case for their complementarity. We show the various ways in which terminological… read more
2025 Chapter 1. Modeling variation: Pluricentricity and pluriareality — The debate surrounding both models, and potentials for their complementarity Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards, Meer, Philipp and Ryan Durgasingh (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
The question of how to conceptualize variation in languages with more than one standard variety, such as English, Dutch, or German, has been a central one to variation linguistics. Variation in these languages is sometimes modeled according to two opposed approaches: pluricentricity and… read more
2022 Context matters: Grenadian students’ attitudes toward newscasters’ and teachers’ accents Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 37:1, pp. 16–52 | Article
This paper presents the results of two largely parallel verbal guise studies that elicited students’ attitudes toward different standard varieties of English. The studies were conducted in the small anglophone Caribbean island country of Grenada. The two studies were contextualized in the… read more
2021 Rhotics in Standard Scottish English English World-Wide 42:2, pp. 121–144 | Article
The present study investigates rhotics in Standard Scottish English (SSE). Drawing on an auditory analysis of formal speeches given in the Scottish parliament by 49 speakers (members of parliament and the general public), it examines whether an underlying rhotic standard exists for SSE speakers… read more
2021 Extending automatic vowel formant extraction to New Englishes: A comparison of different methods English World-Wide 42:1, pp. 54–84 | Article
While different automated procedures for vowel formant prediction have recently been proposed, it is unclear how reliably these methods perform in the phonetic study of vowels in New Englishes and how such approaches could be applied to specific varieties. This paper compares different automatic… read more
2019 Trinidadian secondary school students’ attitudes toward accents of Standard English Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34:1, pp. 83–125 | Article
In the anglophone Caribbean, tendencies of endonormative reorientation have been observed in the development of local standards of English. Situated in the school context, this study adds a language attitude perspective on the question of whether and to what extent an endonormative standard of… read more