Viewing dialect change through acceptability judgments: A case study in Shetland dialect

Acceptability judgments are the standard methodology for investigating syntactic variation. While acceptability judgments have been shown to be reliable in cases of assumed stable variation, there has been little discussion of how syntactic change plays out in judgment tasks. This is despite evidenc...

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Main Author: E Jamieson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-03-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5267/