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
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.
Publication
American Speech
Volume
Vol. 79
Issue
no. 3
Pages
250-269
Date
September 2004
Language
en
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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