Rebecca Lurie Starr
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rebecca Lurie Starr plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2215-1354 | E-ISSN 2215-1362
Articles
2022 Chapter 3. Production and evaluation of sociolinguistic variation in Mandarin Chinese among children in Singapore Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bayley, Robert, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li (eds.), pp. 43–70 | Chapter
Singapore Mandarin is traditionally characterized by non-standard features arising from southern Chinese dialect influence. However, as English expands as a home language in Singapore, children’s Mandarin exposure is increasingly limited to formal school settings. The situation is further… read more
2021 Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia: An introduction Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia, Ravindranath Abtahian, Maya and Abigail C. Cohn (eds.), pp. 83–94 | Introduction
2021 Chapter 9. Navigating variation amid contested norms and societal shifts: A case study of two L2 Mandarin speakers in Singapore Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan, Ghimenton, Anna, Aurélie Nardy and Jean-Pierre Chevrot (eds.), pp. 199–226 | Chapter
L2 learners acquiring patterns of variation in a community that uses stigmatized linguistic features face particular challenges in reconciling prescriptive and local variants. The present study examines the case of Mandarin in Singapore, in which transfer from southern Chinese varieties has… read more
2021 Variation and contact-induced change in Javanese phonology among multilingual children in Indonesia Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia, Ravindranath Abtahian, Maya and Abigail C. Cohn (eds.), pp. 95–119 | Article
As Indonesian becomes more dominant in Indonesia, regional heritage languages, such as Javanese, may be increasingly influenced by phonological transfer. The extent of these effects may depend upon a speaker’s region and social background, as well as age of acquisition and proficiency in various… read more
2020 Vowel system or vowel systems? Variation in the monophthongs of Philippine Hybrid Hokkien in Manila Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 35:2, pp. 253–292 | Article
The Manila variety of Philippine Hybrid Hokkien (PHH-M) or Lánnang-uè is a contact language used by the metropolitan Manila Chinese Filipinos; it is primarily comprised of Hokkien, Tagalog/Filipino, and English elements. Approaching PHH-M as a mixed language, we investigate linguistically and… read more
2020 The acquisition of L3 variation among early bilinguals: The roles of L2 experience, home language and linguistic factors Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:5, pp. 657–689 | Article
The present study investigates whether prior experience with formal study of an L2 influences L3 Korean learners’ Type 1 variation (i.e., use of obligatory forms) and Type 2 variation (i.e., variation between alternative acceptable variants). The patterns of variation in Korean argument… read more
2012 Style-shifting in the U.S. Congress: The foreign (a) vowel in “Iraq(i)” Style-Shifting in Public: New perspectives on stylistic variation, Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel and Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa (eds.), pp. 45–64 | Article
2012 Condoleezza Rice and the sociophonetic construction of identity Style-Shifting in Public: New perspectives on stylistic variation, Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel and Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa (eds.), pp. 65–80 | Article