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Publication details [#65923]

Squires, Lauren. 2019. Genre and linguistic expectation shift: Evidence from pop song lyrics. Language in Society 48 (1) : 1–30.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
context | expectation | genre | reading | sentence, processing of | sociolinguistics | song | speaker | standardization
Language as a subject
English
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study employs popular song lyrics to explore whether genre cues can alter linguistic expectations, affecting how speakers render morphosyntactic variants. In three self-paced reading tests, partakers read pop song sentences.