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Patterns of age-based linguistic variation in American English

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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 58 - 88

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DOI (Published version): 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2008.00353.x

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The present study employs the corpus linguistics technique of key word analysis on a large corpus of casual conversation in American English to explore age-based linguistic variation in spontaneous conversation. The goal was to shed light on how language varies across the life-span. In prior socioli...

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ISSN: 1360-6441 1467-9841
Published: 2008
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