Constant effects and the independence of variants in controlled judgment data

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ID7913193
AuthorsBill Haddican (0000-0002-2583-9414, University of Groningen, corresponding author), Daniel Ezra Johnson (0000-0001-8793-8736, Lancaster University), Nanna Haug Hilton (0000-0003-0141-3539, Lancaster University)
Year2016
Volume16
Issue2
Pages247-266
Publication date2016-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistic Variation (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2211-6834 • E-ISSN: 2211-6842
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/lv.16.2.04had
OpenAlexW2574079958
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited26

This article proposes that Kroch’s (1989) Constant Rate Hypothesis – the generalization that contextual effects tend to be stable in processes of diachronic variation in production data – be extended to synchronic variation in controlled judgment data. Two recent, large-sample judgment experiments are discussed suggesting that shared contextual effects across speakers in acceptability judgments can be used to infer a single abstract source for patterns of variation across superficially different contexts. At the same time, the results suggest that not all sets of variants – or “ways of saying the same thing” (Labov 1972: 271) – are linguistic variables of this formally defined type

Epistemology · Generalization · Linguistics · Statistics · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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