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Real and Apparent Time in Language Change: Late Adoption of Changes in Montreal English
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| Title |
Real and Apparent Time in Language Change: Late Adoption of Changes in Montreal English
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| Abstract |
Linguists often rely on synchronic generational differences in language to supply evidence of language change in progress in "apparent time," yet this approach must always be evaluated against the possibility that such differences reflect change over speakers' lifetimes ("age grading"), rather than language change. The author compares apparent-time data on Montreal English with "real-time" data from earlier studies of the same community, in order to test the assumptions of the apparent-time model.
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American Speech
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Vol. 79
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no. 3
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250-269
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September 2004
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en
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| Citation |
Boberg, Charles. “Real and Apparent Time in Language Change: Late Adoption of Changes in Montreal English.” American Speech Vol. 79, no. 3 (September 2004): 250–269.
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