The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich

By P. Trudgill. 1974

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"How Old Do You Think I Am?" A Study of Language and Age in Twitter (2013, background): “Examples for this are Labov (1966) and Trudgill (1974).”
Language style as audience design (1984, background): “While most sociolinguistic variables are markers, studies covering an entire speech community (e.g., Wolfram 1969; Trudgill 1974) have usually found a small proportion of variables to be indicators only.”
Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey (2016, methodology): “Surveys and ethnographic research have been the main methods of data collection [61, 173, 174, 248, 254, 267].”
The cognitive coherence of sociolects: How do speakers handle multiple sociolinguistic variables? (2013, background): “…typically indicates a more careful speaking style); thus in careful styles, Labov (1966) finds New Yorkers increase their use of coda /r/ and Trudgill (1974) finds Norwich speakers increase their velar articulations of --ing forms, while Bell (1984) shows New Zealand broadcasters using…”
The intersection of sex and social class in the course of linguistic change (1990, background): “100 - 80 - 6 0 - 40 - 20 Style Casual Shifts of style in spontaneous speech by sex and class for (ing) in Norwich (adapted from Trudgill, 1974b).”
Heritage language anxiety and majority language anxiety among Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands (2018, background): “The most insecure social groups, in terms of usage are considered to be those with a greater sensitivity towards prestigious linguistic forms, who desire to rise within the social scale, especially the lowermiddle class and females (Labov, 2006; Trudgill, 1974).”
The nature of sociolinguistic perception (2009, result): “These associations support previous findings in the literature that show correlations between (ING) and actual educational background as well as task manipulations designed to vary the amount of effort speakers devote to standardizing their speech (Labov, 1966; Trudgill, 1974).”
Bilingualism, gender, and ideology (2001, background): “This paradigm often underlies research in variationist sociolinguistics; its best-known claim is that women often use more standard and/or prestigious forms of language (Labov, 1966; Trudgill, 1972, 1974).”