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Publication details [#66900]

Tagliamonte, Sali A., Derek Denis, Marisa Brook and Matt Hunt Gardner. 2019. Peaks and arrowheads of vernacular reorganization. Language Variation and Change 31 (1) : 43–67.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adolescent | language change | quotative | vernacular | vernacular reorganization

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

A key component of Labov's (2001:411) socially motivated projection model of language change is the hypothesis that adolescents and preadolescents undergo a process of vernacular reorganization. This article presents both apparent time and real-time evidence for vernacular reorganization.