YPL1 - Issue 13

Issue 13 (November 1986)

Festschrift R.B. Le Page: Dedicated to R.B. Le Page on his retirement

Editors: Paul Livesey and Mahendra K. Verma

Preface

7

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.