Publications

Publication details [#60382]

Eisenstein, Jacob. 2015. Systematic patterning in phonologically-motivated orthographic variation. Journal of Sociolinguistics 19 (2) : 161–188.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

internet | orthography | phonology1 | speech | variability

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This papper suggests a strong link between variation in spoken and written social media modalities, requiring a novel explanation of cross-modal variation production. Non-standard social media spellings appear inspired by (informal, African American-inspired) speech.