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Publication details [#37651]

Eckert, Penelope. 1988. Adolescent social structure and the spread of linguistic change. Language in Society 17 (2) : 183–207.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adolescent | social class | sociolinguistics | sound change

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper, drawing on participant observation among Detroit suburban adolescents, discusses the social dynamics of two patterns of sociolinguistic variation: the spread of sound change outward from cities and upward via socio-economic hierarchy.