Talkin’ or talking? Phonological variation in the speech of London teenagers

This paper analyses the (ing) variable in the speech of London teenagers. The study is based on a corpus consisting of approximately five hours of speech collected at Queen Mary’s College, University of London, in October 2012. I argue that the nonstandard form [n], usually associated with the speec...

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Tác giả chính: Costin-Valentin Oancea
Định dạng: Bài viết
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2015-05-01
Loạt:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Truy cập trực tuyến:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/BWPL_2015_1_OANCEA.pdf
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Tóm tắt:This paper analyses the (ing) variable in the speech of London teenagers. The study is based on a corpus consisting of approximately five hours of speech collected at Queen Mary’s College, University of London, in October 2012. I argue that the nonstandard form [n], usually associated with the speech of boys is frequently used by girls, contrary to the findings found in the literature on (ing).
số ISSN:2069-9239
2069-9239