Skip to main content

ETHNOS_APP

Home • Search • Journals • List 0

Subjective and Objective Parameters Determining 'Salience' in Long-term Dialect Accommodation

Bibliographic Data

ID3628010
AuthorsPeter Auer (0000-0001-8385-9635, Universität Hamburg), Birgit Barden (Leibniz Institute for the German Language), Beate Grosskopf (Universität Hamburg)
Year1998
Volume2
Issue2
Pages163-187
Publication date1998-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9481.00039
OpenAlexW2088753532
LanguageEN
Citations received37

In this article, we will present empirical results of a longitudinal study on long-term dialect accommodation in a German dialect setting. An important model of explaining which linguistic structures undergo such convergence and which do not makes use of the notion of 'salience'. Dialect features which are perceived by the speakers as 'salient' are taken up and given up more easily and faster than those which are perceived as 'less salient'. The notion of salience has a tradition which goes back to the 1920s. We will discuss this research tradition, apply the criteria for salience that played a role in it to our results, and discuss the question of whether perceived (subjective) salience can be explained in objective (structural-phono logical or phonetic) terms

Accommodation · Cognitive psychology · German · Linguistics · Salience (neuroscience · Salient · Sociology · Term (time · Computer Science · Linguistic research and analysis · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

  • How long is ‘a long term’ for sound change

    Open Access•Cesko C Voeten•Language Dynamics and Change•2021

  • The medium-term dynamics of accents on reality television

    Open Access•Morgan Sonderegger, Max Bane et al.•Language•2017

  • New Zealand English

    Open Access•Elizabeth Gordon, Lyle Campbell et al.•New Zealand English•2004

  • Phonological Individuation in a Former Danish Settlement in South Dakota, USA

    Open Access•Jan Heegård Petersen•Journal of Germanic Linguistics•2018

  • Zur Stabilität dialektaler Formen

    Open Access•Philip C Vergeiner, Stephan Elspaß et al.•Linguistik Online•2021

  • A Small Island With Big Differences? Folk Perceptions in the Context of Dialect Levelling and Koineization

    Open Access•Constantina Fotiou, Kleanthes K Grohmann•Frontiers in Communication•2022

  • Significado social de las actitudes lingüísticas, la red social y las variables de pequeña escala en los estudios de inmigración

    María Clara von Essen•Iberoromania•2020

  • On explaining stable dialect features

    Open Access•Philip C Vergeiner, Dominik Wallner•Open Linguistics•2022

  • Phonetic Attrition Beyond the Segment

    Open Access•Divyanshi Shaktawat•Languages•2025

  • A critical evaluation of two approaches to defining perceptual salience

    Open Access•Barbara Macleod, Bethany MacLeod•Ampersand•2015

  • Formality strategies in Managua, Nicaragua

    Warren Chappell, Whitney Chappell•Spanish in Context•2015

  • Cognitive-conceptual approaches to multilingual repertoires in South Africa and their implications for the study of linguistic registers

    Open Access•A Peters•International Journal of the…•2026

  • Lexical preference in second dialect acquisition in a second language

    Open Access•Ksenia Gnevsheva, Anita Szakay et al.•International Journal of…•2022

  • Implicational scales in colloquial Belgian Dutch

    Anne-Sophie Ghyselen, Jacques Van Keymeulen•Dialectologia et Geolinguistica•2016

  • Assessing contact-induced change in Palestinian Arabic

    Open Access•Yasmine Abou Taha, Stephen Levey•The Canadian Journal of…•2024

  • La norme de prononciation québécoise en changement (1970–2008) ? L'affrication de /t, d/ et l'antériorisation de /ɑ̃/ chez les présentateurs des journaux télévisés de Radio-Canada

    Open Access•Marc Chalier•The Canadian Journal of…•2019

  • Perceptual salience and social categorization of contact features in Asturian Spanish

    Sonia Barne, Sonia Barnes•Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone…•2015

  • Arabic Dialect Contact and Change in Casablanca

    Atiqa Hachimi•Anthropological linguistics•2018

  • Identity and semantic change

    Marina Terkourafi•Journal of Historical Pragmatics•2005

  • Politeness and formulaicity

    Open Access•Marina Terkourafi•Journal of Greek Linguistics•2002

  • Multiple vectors of unidirectional dialect change in eastern New England

    Open Access•James N Stanford, Nathan A Severance et al.•Language Variation and Change•2014

  • Produced and perceived authenticity in the Northern Irish TV show Derry Girls

    Open Access•Sara Díaz-Sierra•English World-Wide A Journal of…•2022

  • Types of dialect accommodation in first-generation contact between adult speakers of mutually intelligible but regionally different varieties

    James R Wilson, James Wilson•Multilingua•2011

  • Dialect (non-)acquisition and use by young people of migrant background in Germany

    Peter Auer•Journal of Multilingual and…•2025

  • The influence of Standard German on the vowels and diphthongs of West Central Bavarian

    Open Access•Katrin Wolfswinkler, Jonathan Harrington•Journal of the International…•2021

  • Using Mahalanobis Distances to Investigate Second Dialect Acquisition

    Open Access•Josiane Riverin-Coutlée, Johanna-Pascale Roy et al.•Language and Speech•2023

  • Vowel Production and Perception

    Open Access•D H Whalen, Harriet S Magen et al.•Language and Speech•2004

  • Individual Differences in the Adoption of Sound Change

    Open Access•Cesko C Voeten•Language and Speech•2021

  • Preference for Distinct Variants in Learning Sound Correspondences During Dialect Acquisition

    Open Access•Xiaoyu Yu, Youngah Do•Language and Speech•2025

  • Beyond the micro-level in politeness research

    Marina Terkourafi•Journal of Politeness Research•2005

  • Bidialectalism or Dialect Death? Explaining Generational Change in the Shetland Islands, Scotland

    Jennifer Smith, Mercedes Durham•American Speech•2012

  • Perceptual Discrimination of Phonemic Contrasts in Quebec French

    Open Access•Scott Kunkel, Elisa Passoni et al.•Languages•2023

  • Displacement and local linguistic practices

    Open Access•Katie Carmichael•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2017

  • Introduction to the Thematic Issue

    Open Access•Anna Babel, Kathryn Campbell‐kibler et al.•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2025

  • On the relevance and accountability of dialect

    Open Access•Chase Wesley Raymond•Journal of Sociolinguistics•2018

  • Parodying incompetence in (I)europa

    Open Access•Anna‐marie Sprenger•Journal of Linguistic Anthropology•2024

  • The limits of thematization

    Open Access•Charles H P Zuckerman, N J Enfield•Journal of Linguistic Anthropology•2023

Unique citing works37
Citations per year1,54
Citation span2002 - 2026 (25)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 35

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub
Ethnos_APP • Open Source Project • MIT License • Frontend v2.0.0 • Privacy and Cookies • API Documentation: api.ethnos.app/docs • API Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17049435 • Frontend Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17050053 • cruz.rio.br • Expectantes Misericordiae