The Development of Sociolinguistic Competence across the Lifespan: Three Domains of Regional Dialect Perception

Autor/inn/en	Dossey, Ellen; Clopper, Cynthia G.; Wagner, Laura
Titel	The Development of Sociolinguistic Competence across the Lifespan: Three Domains of Regional Dialect Perception
Quelle	In: Language Learning and Development, 16 (2020) 4, S.330-350 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1547-5441
DOI	10.1080/15475441.2020.1784736
Schlagwörter	Sociolinguistics; Dialects; Task Analysis; Auditory Discrimination; Classification; Decision Making; Comparative Analysis; North American English; Pronunciation; Children; Adults; Older Adults; Auditory Perception; Sociocultural Patterns; Language Variation; Language Processing; Age Differences; Science Education; Museums; Ohio + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziolinguistik; Dialect; Dialekt; Aufgabenanalyse; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Amerikanisches Englisch; Aussprache; Child; Kind; Kinder; Älterer Erwachsener; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Sprachenvielfalt; Sprachverarbeitung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Museum; Museumswesen; Museen
Abstract	This study investigated the developmental trajectories of three perceptual domains related to regional dialect competence: the linguistic domain, tested through an intelligibility in noise task; the objective indexical domain, tested through locality judgments and a free classification task; and the subjective indexical domain, tested through smart and friendly judgments. To allow direct comparison across domains, participants aged 4-71 years (N = 302) completed all tasks with the same talkers from four regional dialects of American English. The results demonstrated that development in each of these domains is protracted, with changes occurring as late as early adulthood. However, the developmental trajectories for each task and the connections between them differed significantly among the stimulus dialects. These dialect-specific patterns suggest that dialect perception requires extensive exposure to variety-specific linguistic and socio-cultural information, and the lengthy timecourse of sociolinguistic development reflects the substantial exposure that is necessary to successfully integrate linguistic and social information. (As Provided).
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