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Автор Horvath, Barbara M.
Автор Horvath, Ronald J.
Дата выпуска 2003
dc.description Close examination of five constraint hierarchies involved in the vocalization of /l/ in Australian and New Zealand English across five geolinguistic scales (individual, local, regional, national, and supranational) reveals patterns of variation that allow us to distinguish linguistic processes that are universal from those that are particular. Based on 42 goldvarb analyses, we use probability weights to measure the variation in the order and contrast within and across constraint hierarchies. Geolinguistic scale analysis shows that some constraints are scale independent (i.e., they do not vary in order or contrast with changes in geolinguistic scale), whereas others are clearly scale dependent and do vary systematically with changes in geolinguistic scale. We propose a universality continuum in which constraint hierarchies that exhibit near invariance across all geolinguistic scales are at one end of the continuum and constraint hierarchies that vary with geolinguistic scale are at the other end. Scale dependency in constraint hierarchies identifies where social processes can intervene in universal linguistic processes.
Издатель Cambridge University Press
Название A closer look at the constraint hierarchy: Order, contrast, and geographical scale
DOI 10.1017/S0954394503152015
Electronic ISSN 1469-8021
Print ISSN 0954-3945
Журнал Language Variation and Change
Том 15
Первая страница 143
Последняя страница 170
Аффилиация Horvath Barbara M.; University of Sydney
Аффилиация Horvath Ronald J.; University of Sydney
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