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3 - Sociolinguistic Approaches to Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology

from Part I - Approaches to Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

By
Manuel Díaz-Campos ,
Molly Cole  and
Matthew Pollock
Edited by
Mark Amengual
Mark Amengual
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Summary

This chapter examines the conceptualization and measurement of contact phenomena in the context of bilingualism across various languages. The goal of the chapter is to account for various phonetic contact phenomena in sociolinguistic analysis, as well as providing context for elaborating on quantitative methodologies in sociophonetic contact linguistics. More specifically, the chapter provides a detailed account of global phenomena in modern natural speech contexts, as well as an up-to-date examination of quantitative methods in the field of sociolinguistics. The first section provides a background of theoretical concepts important to the understanding of sociophonetic contact in the formation of sound systems. The following sections focus on several key social factors that play a major part in the sociolinguistic approach to bilingual phonetics and phonology, including language dominance and age of acquisition at the segmental and the suprasegmental levels, as well as topics of language attitudes and perception, and typical quantitative methods used in sociolinguistics.

Keywords

sociolinguisticsbilingualismphonetic competencesocial factorslanguage dominanceheritage speakersgroup identitysocioeconomic statuslanguage attitudeslanguage background questionnaire (LBQ)Bilingual Language Profile (BLP)language contactage of acquisitionphonetic perceptionquantitative methodsanalysis of variance (ANOVA)conditional inference treeslogistic regression
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The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology , pp. 65 - 85
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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