Unnatural bedfellows? the sociolinguistic analysis of variation and language documentation

Sociolinguistics and language documentation are both sub-fields of linguistics dealing with variation in natural language, but how they approach variation differs. This paper suggests that sociolinguistic studies of probabilistic variation can contribute not only to more thorough documentation of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meyerhoff, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2019