Acquiring variation in an artificial language: Children and adults are sensitive to socially conditioned linguistic variation
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2017.02.004
Abstract: Languages exhibit sociolinguistic variation, such that adult native speakers condition the usage of linguistic variants on social context, gender, and ethnicity, among other cues. While the existence of this kind of socially conditioned variation is… read more here.
Keywords: variation; speaker identity; artificial language; children adults ... See more keywords