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Publication details [#46480]

Smith, Jennifer, Mercedes Durham and Liane Fortune. 2007. “Mam, my trousers is fa'in doon!”: Community, caregiver, and child in the acquisition of variation in a Scottish dialect. Language Variation and Change 19 (1) : 63–99.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

caregiver-child conversation | dialect1 | language variation | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Scottish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper proposes a cross-sectional analysis of children's early acquisition of variable forms in a Scottish dialect, focusing on the role of the caregiver's input.