TY - BOOK AU - Rácz,Péter TI - Salience in sociolinguistics: a quantitative approach SN - 9783110305395 (ebook) AV - P120 .V37 R33 2013eb PY - 2013///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter Mouton KW - Cognitive grammar KW - Glottalization (Phonetics) KW - Language and languages KW - Variation KW - Linguistic change KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Electronic books N1 - Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Freiburg im Breisgau; Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminaries --; Salience and linguistic Variation --; Lexical reference and social indexation --; Concepts and notations --; Salience as low probability --; Structure of the book --; Methodology --; Chapter structure --; The case studies --; Concluding remarks --; Defining Salience --; Salience as a general term --; Salience in sociolinguistics --; Salience in Visual Cognition --; Selective attention in hearing --; Operationalisingsociolinguistic salience --; Preliminaries --; Defining salience --; Exemplars and transitional probabilities --; Concluding remarks --; Methodology --; Cognitive salience : main assumptions and considerations --; Cognitive salience : further assumptions --; Step-by-step corpus editing --; Calculating transitional probabilities --; Definite Article Reduction --; Background --; Details of the process --; DAR as a salient variable --; Analysis --; Methods --; Salience from token frequency --; Salience from transitional probability --; Further arguments for phonotactic distinctiveness --; Concluding remarks --; Glottalisation in the South of England --; Background --; Two recent studies --; Salience and glottalisation --; Analysis --; Methods --; The London-Lund Corpus --; The Spoken Corpus of Adolescent London English --; Modelling results --; Concluding remarks --; Hiatus resolution in Hungarian --; Background --; The perception of hiatus resolution : Methods --; The perception of hiatus resolution : Results --; Hiatus resolution and naive linguistic awareness --; Analysis --; Corpus results --; Main points --; Concluding remarks --; Derhoticisation in Glasgow --; Background --; Social stratification and social awareness --; Derhoticisation in Glasgow --; Irl in Glasgow --; Studies on coda/r/ --; Interim Summary --; Analysis --; The FRED study --; Transitional probabilities in coda /r/ realisation --; Concluding remarks --; The operationalisation and relevance of salience --; Salience and models of the lexicon --; The relevance of salience --; The duality of patterning --; Modelling, phonetic Variation and indexation --; Summary --; Salience and language change --; Speaker indexation in sound change --; Approachesto Speaker indexation --; Simulations on the role of indexation --; Salience in the propagation of a change --; Glottalisation in England --; Derhoticisation in Scotland --; Concluding remarks --; Conclusions --; The source of salience --; From cognitive properties to language use --; Consequences for phonological modelling --; The predictability of salience --; Types of phonological change --; Consonants and vowels --; Overview --; Concluding remarks --; Bibliography --; Index UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10811339 ER -