Languages in Contact: French, German and Romansh in twentieth-century Switzerland
Uriel Weinreich
[Not in series, 166] 2011. xxxiv, 401 pp.
William Labov
List of John Benjamins publications for which William Labov plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2023 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 40:4, pp. 557–568 | Editorial
2015 The discovery of the unexpected Asia-Pacific Language Variation 1:1, pp. 7–22 | Article
The history of sociolinguistic research leads us to expect certain patterns of variation by social class, age and gender, but as the field expands to new societies with different social structures we often encounter unexpected results. Such findings can have great value in leading to higher level… read more
2014 The sociophonetic orientation of the language learner Advances in Sociophonetics, Celata, Chiara and Silvia Calamai (eds.), pp. 17–28 | Article
This paper is an effort to define the phonetic target of the language learner: what are the data that the child focuses on in becoming a native speaker? A number of studies are reviewed to show that children reject the idiosyncratic features of their parents’ phonetic system if they do not match… read more
2014 What is to be learned: The community as the focus of social cognition Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use, Pütz, Martin, Justyna A. Robinson and Monika Reif (eds.), pp. 23–51 | Article
This paper is an effort to define the target of the language learner: asking, what are the data that the child pays attention to in the process of becoming a native speaker? In so doing, we will necessarily be engaged in the more general effort to define language itself. The general argument to be… read more
2012 What is to be learned: The community as the focus of social cognition Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use, Pütz, Martin, Justyna A. Robinson and Monika Reif (eds.), pp. 265–293 | Article
This paper is an effort to define the target of the language learner: asking, what are the data that the child pays attention to in the process of becoming a native speaker? In so doing, we will necessarily be engaged in the more general effort to define language itself. The general argument to be… read more
2008 Mysteries of the substrate Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff, Meyerhoff, Miriam and Naomi Nagy (eds.), pp. 315–326 | Article
There can be little doubt about the existence of substrate effects in many cases when a whole population abandons their original language and adopts another. But there are situations in which the direction of linguistic influence remains unexplained, the causal connections are obscure, or the… read more
2007 Narrative pre-construction Narrative – State of the Art, Bamberg, Michael (ed.), pp. 47–56 | Article
Before a narrative can be constructed, it must be pre-constructed by a cognitive process that begins with a decision that a given event is reportable. Pre-construction begins with this most reportable event and proceeds backwards in time to locate events that are linked causally each to the… read more
2006 Narrative pre-construction Narrative – State of the Art, Bamberg, Michael (ed.), pp. 37–45 | Article
Before a narrative can be constructed, it must be pre-constructed by a cognitive process that begins with a decision that a given event is reportable. Pre-construction begins with this most reportable event and proceeds backwards in time to locate events that are linked causally each to the… read more
2003 Pursuing the cascade model Social Dialectology: In honour of Peter Trudgill, Britain, David and Jenny Cheshire (eds.), pp. 9–22 | Article
2001 12. Applying our knowledge of African American English to the problem of raising reading levels in inner-city
schools Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English, Lanehart, Sonja L. (ed.), pp. 299 ff. | Article
2001 How I got into linguistics, and what I got out of it Historiographia Linguistica 28:3, pp. 455–466 | Miscellaneous
1997 Some Further Steps in Narrative Analysis Oral Versions of Personal Experience: Three decades of narrative analysis, pp. 395–415 | Article
1997 Resyllabification Variation, Change, and Phonological Theory, Hinskens, Frans L., Roeland van Hout and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 145–179 | Article
1996 Some Notes on the Role of Misperception in Language Learning Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation, Bayley, Robert and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 245 ff. | Article
1990 On the Adequacy of natural Languages: I. The Development of Tense Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems, Singler, John Victor (ed.), pp. 1 ff. | Article
1989 The exact description of a speech community: Short a in Philadelphia Language Change and Variation, Fasold, Ralph W. and Deborah Schiffrin (eds.), pp. 1 ff. | Article
1987 The overestimation of functionalism Functionalism in Linguistics, Dirven, René † and Vilém Fried (eds.), pp. 311 ff. | Article
1986 Testing listeners’ reactions to phonological markers of ethnic identity: a new method for sociolinguistic research Diversity and Diachrony, Sankoff, David, pp. 45–58 | Article
1986 De facto segregation of black and white vernaculars Diversity and Diachrony, Sankoff, David, pp. 1–24 | Article
1982 2. Building on empirical foundations Perspectives on Historical Linguistics: Papers from a conference held at the meeting of the Language Theory Division, Modern Language Assn., San Francisco, 27–30 December 1979, Lehmann, Winfred P. and Yakov Malkiel (eds.), pp. 17 ff. | Chapter