Karen V. Beaman (editor) - Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan : Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives from Panel Studies

This volume brings together research on panel studies with the aim of providing a coherent empirical and theoretical knowledge-base for examining the impact of maturation and lifespan-specific effects on linguistic malleability in the post-adolescent speaker. Building on the work of Wagner and Buchstaller (2018), the present collection offers a critical examination of the theoretical implications of panel research across a range of geographic regions and time periods. The volume seeks to offer a way forward in the debates circling about the phenomenon of later-life language change, drawing on contributions from a variety of linguistic disciplines to examine critical topics such as the effect of linguistic architecture, the roles of mobility and identity construction, and the impact of lexical and word frequency effects. Taken together, this edited collection both informs and pushes forward key questions on the nature of lifespan change, making this key reading for students and researchers in cognitive linguistics, historical linguistics, dialectology, and variationist sociolinguistics.

Karen V. Beaman received her PhD in sociolinguistics from Queen Mary University of London and is doing post-doctoral work at Eberhard Karls Universitt Tbingen. Her research interests concern language variation, coherence and change, with particular focus on how factors of identity, mobility, and social networks drive or inhibit change.

Isabelle Buchstaller is professor of English linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her research interests include language variation and change across time. She is the author of Quotatives: New Trends and Sociolinguistic Implications (2014) and has co-edited four volumes, most recently, Routledges Panel Studies of Variation and Change (2018) (with Suzanne Evans Wagner).

Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller, Leipzig University

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Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan

Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives from Panel Studies

Edited by Karen V. Beaman and Isabelle Buchstaller

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Language Variation and
Language Change Across
the Lifespan

Theoretical and Empirical
Perspectives from Panel Studies

Edited by Karen V. Beaman and
Isabelle Buchstaller

First published 2021

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Beaman, Karen V., editor. | Buchstaller, Isabelle, editor.

Title: Language variation and language change across the lifespan : theoretical and empirical perspectives from panel studies / edited by Karen V. Beaman and Isabelle Buchstaller.

Description: New York : Routlege, 2021. |

Series: Routledge studies in language change | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020041814 | ISBN 9780367141219 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429030314 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Language and languages--Variation. | Linguistic change.

Classification: LCC P40.5.L54 L43 2021 | DDC 417/.7--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020041814

ISBN: 978-0-367-14121-9 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-367-70480-3 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-03031-4 (ebk)

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ISABELLE BUCHSTALLER AND KAREN V. BEAMAN

PART I
Revelations from Past Trend and Panel Studies

EVA SUNDGREN, ISABELLE BUCHSTALLER, AND KAREN V. BEAMAN

MARIA DA CONCEIO DE PAIVA, MARIA EUGNIA L. DUARTE, AND GREGORY R. GUY

JOHN R. RICKFORD

PART II
Insights in the Analysis of Intra-Speaker (In)Stability

DAVID BOWIE

JONATHAN HARRINGTON AND ULRICH REUBOLD

PART III
A Glimpse of the Past: Panel Research from Archival Material

WILLIAM STANDING AND PETER PETR

JUAN MANUEL HERNNDEZ-CAMPOY

PART IV
New Methodological Approaches for Lifespan Studies

ISABELLE BUCHSTALLER, ANNE KRAUSE-LERCHE, AND JOHANNA MECHLER

KAREN V. BEAMAN AND FABIAN TOMASCHEK

R. HARALD BAAYEN, KAREN V. BEAMAN, AND MICHAEL RAMSCAR

PART V
Future Directions For Panel Reserach

SUZANNE EVANS WAGNER

7.1 Adoption of the new

7.1 Frequency of

R. Harald Baayen