“Mam, my trousers is fa'in doon!”: Community, caregiver, and child in the acquisition of variation in a Scottish dialect
By Jennifer Smith, Mercedes Durham, Liane Fortune. Language Variation and Change, 2007
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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics
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Citations in the corpus
- The social and linguistic in the acquisition of sociolinguistic norms: Caregivers, children, and variation (2013, methodology): “Even more recent research provides some evidence that they are acquired even earlier, in tandem with the acquisition process more generally (e.g., Diaz-Campos 2005; Foulkes et al. 2005; Roberts 1994; Smith et al. 2007).”
- Universal and dialect-specific pathways of acquisition: Caregivers, children, and t/d deletion (2009, background): “Although this might be the case with this variable, it is not the case with all variables: in our previous and ongoing work (Smith et al., 2007; Smith, Durham, Fortune, & Steele, forthcoming), we find that some variables show extreme style-shifting in children’s speech and the patterns of use…”