TY - JOUR
T1 - Linguistic accommodation and the salience of national identity markers in a border town
AU - Llamas, Carmen
AU - Watt, Dominic
AU - Johnson, Daniel Ezra
PY - 2009/12
Y1 - 2009/12
N2 - This study tests the extent of speakers’ linguistic accommodation to members of putative in-groups and out-groups in a border locality where such categorizations can be said to be particularly accentuated. Variation in the speech of informants in dialect contact interactions with separate interviewers is analyzed for evidence of speech accommodation in the form of phonological convergence or divergence. The data do not support a straightforward interpretation of accommodation, and findings are considered in terms of evidence required for such an account. Implications for the notion of salience in explanations of contact-induced language change are also considered, as is the significance of the “interviewer effect” in the compilation of data sets for use in quantitative studies of phonological variation and change.
AB - This study tests the extent of speakers’ linguistic accommodation to members of putative in-groups and out-groups in a border locality where such categorizations can be said to be particularly accentuated. Variation in the speech of informants in dialect contact interactions with separate interviewers is analyzed for evidence of speech accommodation in the form of phonological convergence or divergence. The data do not support a straightforward interpretation of accommodation, and findings are considered in terms of evidence required for such an account. Implications for the notion of salience in explanations of contact-induced language change are also considered, as is the significance of the “interviewer effect” in the compilation of data sets for use in quantitative studies of phonological variation and change.
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U2 - 10.1177/0261927X09341962
DO - 10.1177/0261927X09341962
M3 - Article
SN - 0261-927X
VL - 28
SP - 381
EP - 407
JO - Journal of Language and Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Language and Social Psychology
IS - 4
ER -