Stephen Levey
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 94949 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stephen Levey |
| PRENOMES | Stephen |
| SOBRENOME | Levey |
| ASSINATURA | LEVEY S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3037-1190 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Anatomy of a Syntactic Variable in Later Childhood
Drawing on community-based speech data representing Canadian English, this study operationalizes a number of structural measures to track the evolution of relative clause constructions (RCCs) in the speech of 4 to 12-year-old children, effecting additional comparisons with a commensurate adult baseline variety. Embedded in a comparative sociolinguistic framework, quantitative analyses reveal the structural diversity of RCCs in the speech of child…
Language Learning in the Wild
We argue that quantitative analysis of community-based speech data furnishes an indispensable adjunct to theoretical and experimental studies targeting the acquisition of relativization. Drawing on a comparative sociolinguistic approach, we make use of three corpora of natural speech to investigate second-language (L2) speakers' acquisition of restrictive relative clauses in English. These corpora comprise: (i) spontaneous L2 speech; (ii) a local…
Assessing contact-induced change in Palestinian Arabic
We investigate whether Palestinian Arabic (PA), as spoken by the local Palestinian refugee population in Beirut, is converging with Lebanese Arabic (LA), the majority variety. Using a sociolinguistic framework, we target three variables considered to be susceptible to convergent change. We find evidence of contact-induced change in PA in the variable raising of word-medial /a:/ to [e:], as well as in the attrition of socially marked exponents of …
The acquisition of variation and change in English by Canadian francophones
This article describes the compilation of three new spoken language corpora designed to address the acquisition of variation and change in English by second language (L2) learners. The first corpus represents L2 English recorded from native Canadian francophones in the Canadian National Capital Region. A second corpus of vernacular English recorded from native anglophones in the same region furnishes a local baseline variety of the target languag…
North Versus South
In this article, the authors reconstruct the inherent variability found in mid-nineteenth-century American English by drawing on a corpus of semiliterate correspondence rich in nonstandard grammatical features, the Corpus of American Civil War Letters (CACWL). The primary focus is on a comparison of morphosyntactic variability (was/were variation and restrictive relativization strategies) in letters written between 1861 and 1865 by Civil War sold…
Going global and sounding local
We chart the incursion of quotative be like into Dublin English, drawing comparisons with similar developments in urban Canadian English as well as with diachronic benchmarks representing vernacular Irish English. Quantitative analysis reveals that be like is the lead variant in the quotative system used by young Dubliners and is advancing along a similar, though not identical, cline of grammaticalization to that found in urban Canadian English. …
A big city perspective on come/came variation
This study examines the alternation between non-standard preterite come and its standard counterpart came in London English. A major component of the investigation centers on the comparison of come/came variation in the speech of Anglo (British-heritage) and non-Anglo (migrant-heritage) youth. Rates of preterite come vary markedly across different age cohorts and minority ethnic groups, foregrounding the importance of social factors as key determ…
Between you and I
Variable case marking of pronouns in coordinate noun phrases (CoNPs) is a well-documented phenomenon which has elicited prescriptive censure for centuries. Drawing on the framework of variationist sociolinguistics, this study presents a detailed quantitative analysis of variable case marking in CoNPs in the Quebec English Corpus (Poplack, Walker and Malcolmson 2006), a massive compendium of vernacular speech. Operationalizing a number of extralin…
A variationist perspective on discourse-pragmatic change in a contact setting
The emergence of être comme as a quotative verb in Canadian French is easily construed as a case of contact-induced change by virtue of its superficial similarity to the rapidly diffusing be like quotative (Tagliamonte & D'Arcy, 2007). We pursue the inference of contact-induced change by undertaking a quantitative analysis of French and English quotatives recorded from speakers in the bilingual city of Ottawa between 2008 and 2010. A series of re…
Social and Linguistic Constraints on Relativizer Omission in Canadian English
This study addresses the social and linguistic constraints on relativizer omission in restrictive relative clauses in a mainstream urban variety of Canadian English. Drawing on the framework of variationist sociolinguistics, the authors test an array of factors that have been traditionally implicated in the choice of relative marker (e.g., syntactic function of the relative marker; animacy and definiteness of the antecedent head NP; length of the…
General Extenders and Grammaticalization
This small-scale study investigates variation in the use of general extenders (e.g. and everything, or something, and all that) in the speech of a group of British children aged 7 to 11 years. The overarching aims of the study are to investigate whether preadolescents’ use of general extenders is socially motivated, and to explore whether competing general extender variants may be situated on a cline of grammaticalization, as determined by a set …
Visiting London relatives
This small-scale study focuses on variation in the relative marker paradigm in the vernacular of a group of preadolescents recorded in the Greater London area. The distributional and multivariate analyses of variation in relative marker usage in restrictive relative clauses reveal that the wh -forms who and what are well-established in the relative marker paradigm of the preadolescents. Who and what are shown to be sensitive to the animacy of the…
The sociolinguistic distribution of discourse marker like in preadolescent speech
Discourse like is claimed to be rapidly spreading in urban centres throughout the English-speaking world (see Dailey-O'Cain 2000; Tagliamonte 2005; D'Arcy 2005; Cheshire, Kerswill and Williams 2005). Like is claimed to be particularly pervasive in the speech of adolescents (Andersen 2001). However, comparatively little is known about the distribution of discourse like in the speech of younger age groups. This paper reassesses the claims made by M…
He's like ‘Do it now!’ and I'm like ‘No!’
Some innovative quotative usage among young people in London. In this article, Levey looks at its use in a south-eastern variety of English, specifically in narratives of personal experience by primary-school children in an outer London borough
Reported dialogue and pragmatic particles in the narratives of preadolescents
This research report examines variation in the quotative system of a group of 23 preadolescents. It explores how variation in reported speech is used particularly by female speakers in their creation of performed narratives, which communicate affective involvement with retold events, and simultaneously seek the engagement of addressees who are invited by way of dramatized recounts to vicariously re‐experience significant episodes in the past. Var…
Relative clauses and register expansion in Tok Pisin
The linguistic correlates of register expansion constitute a fertile area for research within pidgin and creole studies given that there have been few investigations into how different registers within expanded pidgins and creoles may be characterized linguistically. A diachronic investigation of variation in relativization strategies in media Tok Pisin, an English‐based pidgin/creole, reveals that certain innovations in relative clause marking a…
Language change and adaptation in a Tok Pisin newspaper
Aspects of variation in the Papua-New Guinea newspaper ‘Wantok’
A variationist perspective on discourse-pragmatic change in a contact setting
The emergence of être comme as a quotative verb in Canadian French is easily construed as a case of contact-induced change by virtue of its superficial similarity to the rapidly diffusing be like quotative (Tagliamonte & D'Arcy, 2007). We pursue the inference of contact-induced change by undertaking a quantitative analysis of French and English quotatives recorded from speakers in the bilingual city of Ottawa between 2008 and 2010. A series of re…
Going global and sounding local
We chart the incursion of quotative be like into Dublin English, drawing comparisons with similar developments in urban Canadian English as well as with diachronic benchmarks representing vernacular Irish English. Quantitative analysis reveals that be like is the lead variant in the quotative system used by young Dubliners and is advancing along a similar, though not identical, cline of grammaticalization to that found in urban Canadian English. …
The sociolinguistic distribution of discourse marker like in preadolescent speech
Discourse like is claimed to be rapidly spreading in urban centres throughout the English-speaking world (see Dailey-O'Cain 2000; Tagliamonte 2005; D'Arcy 2005; Cheshire, Kerswill and Williams 2005). Like is claimed to be particularly pervasive in the speech of adolescents (Andersen 2001). However, comparatively little is known about the distribution of discourse like in the speech of younger age groups. This paper reassesses the claims made by M…
Visiting London relatives
This small-scale study focuses on variation in the relative marker paradigm in the vernacular of a group of preadolescents recorded in the Greater London area. The distributional and multivariate analyses of variation in relative marker usage in restrictive relative clauses reveal that the wh -forms who and what are well-established in the relative marker paradigm of the preadolescents. Who and what are shown to be sensitive to the animacy of the…
North Versus South
In this article, the authors reconstruct the inherent variability found in mid-nineteenth-century American English by drawing on a corpus of semiliterate correspondence rich in nonstandard grammatical features, the Corpus of American Civil War Letters (CACWL). The primary focus is on a comparison of morphosyntactic variability (was/were variation and restrictive relativization strategies) in letters written between 1861 and 1865 by Civil War sold…
A big city perspective on come/came variation
This study examines the alternation between non-standard preterite come and its standard counterpart came in London English. A major component of the investigation centers on the comparison of come/came variation in the speech of Anglo (British-heritage) and non-Anglo (migrant-heritage) youth. Rates of preterite come vary markedly across different age cohorts and minority ethnic groups, foregrounding the importance of social factors as key determ…
Social and Linguistic Constraints on Relativizer Omission in Canadian English
This study addresses the social and linguistic constraints on relativizer omission in restrictive relative clauses in a mainstream urban variety of Canadian English. Drawing on the framework of variationist sociolinguistics, the authors test an array of factors that have been traditionally implicated in the choice of relative marker (e.g., syntactic function of the relative marker; animacy and definiteness of the antecedent head NP; length of the…
Language change and adaptation in a Tok Pisin newspaper
Aspects of variation in the Papua-New Guinea newspaper ‘Wantok’
Relative clauses and register expansion in Tok Pisin
The linguistic correlates of register expansion constitute a fertile area for research within pidgin and creole studies given that there have been few investigations into how different registers within expanded pidgins and creoles may be characterized linguistically. A diachronic investigation of variation in relativization strategies in media Tok Pisin, an English‐based pidgin/creole, reveals that certain innovations in relative clause marking a…
He's like ‘Do it now!’ and I'm like ‘No!’
Some innovative quotative usage among young people in London. In this article, Levey looks at its use in a south-eastern variety of English, specifically in narratives of personal experience by primary-school children in an outer London borough
Reported dialogue and pragmatic particles in the narratives of preadolescents
This research report examines variation in the quotative system of a group of 23 preadolescents. It explores how variation in reported speech is used particularly by female speakers in their creation of performed narratives, which communicate affective involvement with retold events, and simultaneously seek the engagement of addressees who are invited by way of dramatized recounts to vicariously re‐experience significant episodes in the past. Var…
Visiting London relatives
This small-scale study focuses on variation in the relative marker paradigm in the vernacular of a group of preadolescents recorded in the Greater London area. The distributional and multivariate analyses of variation in relative marker usage in restrictive relative clauses reveal that the wh -forms who and what are well-established in the relative marker paradigm of the preadolescents. Who and what are shown to be sensitive to the animacy of the…
The sociolinguistic distribution of discourse marker like in preadolescent speech
Discourse like is claimed to be rapidly spreading in urban centres throughout the English-speaking world (see Dailey-O'Cain 2000; Tagliamonte 2005; D'Arcy 2005; Cheshire, Kerswill and Williams 2005). Like is claimed to be particularly pervasive in the speech of adolescents (Andersen 2001). However, comparatively little is known about the distribution of discourse like in the speech of younger age groups. This paper reassesses the claims made by M…
General Extenders and Grammaticalization
This small-scale study investigates variation in the use of general extenders (e.g. and everything, or something, and all that) in the speech of a group of British children aged 7 to 11 years. The overarching aims of the study are to investigate whether preadolescents’ use of general extenders is socially motivated, and to explore whether competing general extender variants may be situated on a cline of grammaticalization, as determined by a set …
A variationist perspective on discourse-pragmatic change in a contact setting
The emergence of être comme as a quotative verb in Canadian French is easily construed as a case of contact-induced change by virtue of its superficial similarity to the rapidly diffusing be like quotative (Tagliamonte & D'Arcy, 2007). We pursue the inference of contact-induced change by undertaking a quantitative analysis of French and English quotatives recorded from speakers in the bilingual city of Ottawa between 2008 and 2010. A series of re…
Social and Linguistic Constraints on Relativizer Omission in Canadian English
This study addresses the social and linguistic constraints on relativizer omission in restrictive relative clauses in a mainstream urban variety of Canadian English. Drawing on the framework of variationist sociolinguistics, the authors test an array of factors that have been traditionally implicated in the choice of relative marker (e.g., syntactic function of the relative marker; animacy and definiteness of the antecedent head NP; length of the…
Between you and I
Variable case marking of pronouns in coordinate noun phrases (CoNPs) is a well-documented phenomenon which has elicited prescriptive censure for centuries. Drawing on the framework of variationist sociolinguistics, this study presents a detailed quantitative analysis of variable case marking in CoNPs in the Quebec English Corpus (Poplack, Walker and Malcolmson 2006), a massive compendium of vernacular speech. Operationalizing a number of extralin…
A big city perspective on come/came variation
This study examines the alternation between non-standard preterite come and its standard counterpart came in London English. A major component of the investigation centers on the comparison of come/came variation in the speech of Anglo (British-heritage) and non-Anglo (migrant-heritage) youth. Rates of preterite come vary markedly across different age cohorts and minority ethnic groups, foregrounding the importance of social factors as key determ…
Going global and sounding local
We chart the incursion of quotative be like into Dublin English, drawing comparisons with similar developments in urban Canadian English as well as with diachronic benchmarks representing vernacular Irish English. Quantitative analysis reveals that be like is the lead variant in the quotative system used by young Dubliners and is advancing along a similar, though not identical, cline of grammaticalization to that found in urban Canadian English. …
North Versus South
In this article, the authors reconstruct the inherent variability found in mid-nineteenth-century American English by drawing on a corpus of semiliterate correspondence rich in nonstandard grammatical features, the Corpus of American Civil War Letters (CACWL). The primary focus is on a comparison of morphosyntactic variability (was/were variation and restrictive relativization strategies) in letters written between 1861 and 1865 by Civil War sold…
Assessing contact-induced change in Palestinian Arabic
We investigate whether Palestinian Arabic (PA), as spoken by the local Palestinian refugee population in Beirut, is converging with Lebanese Arabic (LA), the majority variety. Using a sociolinguistic framework, we target three variables considered to be susceptible to convergent change. We find evidence of contact-induced change in PA in the variable raising of word-medial /a:/ to [e:], as well as in the attrition of socially marked exponents of …
The acquisition of variation and change in English by Canadian francophones
This article describes the compilation of three new spoken language corpora designed to address the acquisition of variation and change in English by second language (L2) learners. The first corpus represents L2 English recorded from native Canadian francophones in the Canadian National Capital Region. A second corpus of vernacular English recorded from native anglophones in the same region furnishes a local baseline variety of the target languag…
Language Learning in the Wild
We argue that quantitative analysis of community-based speech data furnishes an indispensable adjunct to theoretical and experimental studies targeting the acquisition of relativization. Drawing on a comparative sociolinguistic approach, we make use of three corpora of natural speech to investigate second-language (L2) speakers' acquisition of restrictive relative clauses in English. These corpora comprise: (i) spontaneous L2 speech; (ii) a local…
The Anatomy of a Syntactic Variable in Later Childhood
Drawing on community-based speech data representing Canadian English, this study operationalizes a number of structural measures to track the evolution of relative clause constructions (RCCs) in the speech of 4 to 12-year-old children, effecting additional comparisons with a commensurate adult baseline variety. Embedded in a comparative sociolinguistic framework, quantitative analyses reveal the structural diversity of RCCs in the speech of child…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (15 obras) · Linguistics (12 obras) · Philosophy (10 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 obras)