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Swear(ING) ain’t play(ING): The interaction of taboo language and the sociolinguistic variable
Swearwords influence social evaluation of a speaker in a variety of ways depending on social context (Jay & Janschewitz, 2008). Little attention has been paid to the role of linguistic variation in social perceptions of ... -
Zero N: Number features and perpendicular to
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50 years of British accent bias
(2022-03-02) -
Verbal interaction in a social dilemma
(2022-05-25) -
Tracking linguistic change in childhood: Transmission, incrementation, and vernacular reorganization
(Linguistic Society of America, 2022-03-23)The mechanisms underlying linguistic change are well documented for adolescent and adult speech, but much less is known about how such change emerges in the childhood years. In this article we address this gap by conducting ... -
Individual and stage-level predicates of personal taste: another argument for genericity as the source of faultless disagreement
This chapter compares simple predicates of personal taste (PPTs) such as 'tasty' and 'beautiful' with their complex counterparts (eg 'tastes good', 'looks beautiful'). I argue that the former differ from the latter along ... -
Straight-washing ecological legacies
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On doing theoretical linguistics
(2021-06)