Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan

Karen V. Beaman received her Ph.D in sociolinguistics at Queen Mary, University of London and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Her research interests concern language variation, coherence and change, with particular focus on how factors of identity, mobility and social networks drive or inhibit change.Isabelle Buchstaller is professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her research interests include language variation and change across time. She is the author of Quotatives: New trends and sociolinguistic implications (2014) and has co-edited four volumes, most recently, panel research in language variation and change (with Suzanne Evans Wagner).

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsPanel studies of language variation and change: Theoretical and methodological implicationsPART I: REVELATIONS FROM PAST TREND AND PANEL STUDIES Chapter 1.The beginnings of panel research: Individual language variation, change and stability in EskilstunaChapter 2.Alignment of individuals with community trends: Subjects from the PortugueseChapter 3. Stylistic Variation in Panel Studies of Language Change: Challenge and Opportunity PART II: INSIGHTS IN THE ANALYSIS OF INTRA-SPEAKER (IN)STABILITY Chapter 4.Individual and group trajectories across adulthood in a sample of Utah English speakersChapter 5.Accent reversion in older adults: evidence from the Queen’s Christmas broadcastsPART III: A GLIMPSE OF THE PAST: PANEL RESEARCH FROM ARCHIVAL MATERIALChapter 6.Exploiting convention: Lifespan change and generational incrementation in the development of cleft constructions Chapter 7.Corpus-based lifespan change in Late Middle EnglishPART IV: NEW METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR LIFESPAN STUDIESChapter 8.Exploring the effect of linguistic architecture and heuristic method in panel analysisChapter 9.Loss of historical phonetic contrast across the lifespan: Articulatory, lexical, and social effects on sound change in SwabianChapter 10.Deconfounding the effects of competition and attrition on dialect across the lifespan: A panel study of Swabian PART V: FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR PANEL RESERACHChapter 11.What’s the point of panel studies?Index

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