Acquiring social meaning of language variation: an experimental exploration KU Leuven
Language varies in many different ways. People for instance use different words to refer to the same object or they pronounce words in various ways. Listeners often associate this language variation with presumed social attributes of the speaker (e.g. level of education). This is referred to as the social meaning of language variation. This project studies how people learn this type of sociolinguistic meaning. More concretely, the project ...