Nancy Niedzielski
Biographic Data
| ID | 182161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Niedzielski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Niedzielski |
| SIGNATURE | NIEDZIELSKI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Panasonic Technologies, Inc. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Folk Linguistics
The globalisation of vernacular variation
Work on variation and change in New Zealand English has identified a shift from older, more British‐like norms to newer, more American‐like ones in the last half century. The shift seems to affect lexical items, and phonological variables. This paper considers some general principles found, in the social sciences, to be associated with globalisation and considers what the theoretical and methodological implications are for the study of language v…
Folk Linguistics. Trends in Linguistics
Folk Linguistics
"Folk knowledge of language has not engaged linguists very often in the history of that field. Introductory texts often disparage folkbelief in contrast to 'scientific truth'. In fact, language is a ubiquitous topic of discussion and general concern of the folk. They talk about grammar, pronunciation, first and second language learning, language disabilities, dialects, gender and language, and a host of other topics. This book approaches such bel…
The Effect of Social Information on the Perception of Sociolinguistic Variables
Forty-one Detroit-area residents were given perceptual tests in which they were asked to choose from a set of resynthesized vowels the tokens that they felt best matched the vowels they heard in the speech of a fellow Detroiter. Half of the respondents were told that the speaker was from Detroit, whereas half were told that she was from Canada. Respondents given the Canadian label chose raised-diphthong tokens as those present in the dialect of t…
Resistance to creolization
The Effect of Social Information on the Perception of Sociolinguistic Variables
Forty-one Detroit-area residents were given perceptual tests in which they were asked to choose from a set of resynthesized vowels the tokens that they felt best matched the vowels they heard in the speech of a fellow Detroiter. Half of the respondents were told that the speaker was from Detroit, whereas half were told that she was from Canada. Respondents given the Canadian label chose raised-diphthong tokens as those present in the dialect of t…
The globalisation of vernacular variation
Work on variation and change in New Zealand English has identified a shift from older, more British‐like norms to newer, more American‐like ones in the last half century. The shift seems to affect lexical items, and phonological variables. This paper considers some general principles found, in the social sciences, to be associated with globalisation and considers what the theoretical and methodological implications are for the study of language v…
Resistance to creolization
Resistance to creolization
The Effect of Social Information on the Perception of Sociolinguistic Variables
Forty-one Detroit-area residents were given perceptual tests in which they were asked to choose from a set of resynthesized vowels the tokens that they felt best matched the vowels they heard in the speech of a fellow Detroiter. Half of the respondents were told that the speaker was from Detroit, whereas half were told that she was from Canada. Respondents given the Canadian label chose raised-diphthong tokens as those present in the dialect of t…
Folk Linguistics
"Folk knowledge of language has not engaged linguists very often in the history of that field. Introductory texts often disparage folkbelief in contrast to 'scientific truth'. In fact, language is a ubiquitous topic of discussion and general concern of the folk. They talk about grammar, pronunciation, first and second language learning, language disabilities, dialects, gender and language, and a host of other topics. This book approaches such bel…
Folk Linguistics. Trends in Linguistics
The globalisation of vernacular variation
Work on variation and change in New Zealand English has identified a shift from older, more British‐like norms to newer, more American‐like ones in the last half century. The shift seems to affect lexical items, and phonological variables. This paper considers some general principles found, in the social sciences, to be associated with globalisation and considers what the theoretical and methodological implications are for the study of language v…
Folk Linguistics
Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Applied linguistics (2 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Cognitive linguistics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Linguistics and Cultural Studies (2 works)