Festschrift R.B. Le Page: Dedicated to R.B. Le Page on his retirement
Editors: Paul Livesey and Mahendra K. Verma
Preface
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P. Livesey and M.K. Verma
What is a language?
9–24
R.B. Le Page
List of publications
25–30
The unreality of quantitative figures
33–48
Darwish G. Al-Amadidh
Addressee-oriented features in spoken discourse
49–63
Jenny Cheshire
Women's speech, women's strength?
65–76
Jennifer Coates
Age identity and elderly disclosure of chronological age
77–88
Nikolas Coupland and Justine Coupland
Pragmatic constraints on interrogatives in spoken French
89–99
Aidan Coveney
Twixt the Scylla of total assimilation and the Charybdis of suicidal purism
101–113
N. Denison
Dialect transmission and variation: An acoustic analysis of vowels in six urban Detroit families
115–128
Toni Deser
Language variation theory in the light of co-occurrence restriction rules
129–139
Hubert Devonish
Realtime vs. apparent time change in Montreal French
141–153
Malcah Yaeger-Dror
Speech disorder as a sociolinguistic problem
155–166
E. Douglas-Cowie and R. Cowie
A rebuttal of essentialist sociolinguistics
167–178
Karol Janicki
The evaluation of phonological vs. phonetic variation in Dutch standard pronunciation
179–190
Uus Knops
Qualitative insights into working-class language attitudes
191–202
Caroline Macafee
Unfiltered talk: A challenge to categories
203–214
Kay McCormick
The concept of prestige in sociolinguistic argumentation
215–226
James Milroy
Gender as a speaker variable: The interesting case of the glottalised stops in Tyneside
227–236
Lesley Milroy
There's no tense like the present: Verbal -s inflection in early Black English
237–277
Shana Poplack and Sali Tagliamonte
Group affiliation and quantitative sociolinguistics
279–294
M.B.H. Rampton
The role of vernacularization in Tanzania: Swahili as a political tool
295–305
Joan Russell
Analyzing English lexical elements in the language of Dutch immigrants in the United States
307–316
Henriette F. Schatz
Linguistic measures of developing social gender identity
317–328
Marion Smith and Barbara Lloyd
Mediating skills in the development of a multilingual society: Perspectives for Britain
329–342
Jean Ure
A paradigm remained: Conflict perspective on language use in bilingual educational and social contexts
343–353
Eddie Williams
The effects of style and speaking rate on /l/-vocalisation in local Cambridge English
355–365
Susan Wright
Abstract
This paper reports the results and conclusions of an auditory study of local Cambridge English, focussing on the effect of style on the vocalisation of /l/. This sociolinguistic feature has been described as a feature marking south eastern varieties of British English, and as a connected speech process in its sensitivity to variation in speaking rate. The study concludes that this feature is socially salient in local Cambridge English.