Contact, the feature pool and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English
Contact, the feature pool and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9841.2011.00478.x
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发表时间：
2011-04-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Torgersen, Eivind
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作者：
Cheshire, Jenny;Kerswill, Paul;Torgersen, Eivind
在北方主要城市的多语言中心，新的宿主语言正在出现。虽然有些人分析这些“多民族语言”作为青年风格，我们采取变异主义的方法，新兴的“多元文化伦敦英语”（MLE），问：（1）什么功能MLE;（2）在什么年龄（S），他们收购;（3）是MLE白话化;（4）什么时候MLE出现，什么因素使之成为可能？我们认为，创新的双元音和引用系统产生于特定的社会语言学的内城伦敦，其中至少有一半的人口正在经历组第二语言习得和高度的语言多样性导致一个异质性的功能池选择。我们寻找增量（Labov 2001）在收购的功能，但发现这只为两个“全球”的变化，像和鹅，青少年表现出最高的使用率。社区内部因素解释了其余特征中与年龄相关的变化。
In the multilingual centres of Northern Europe's major cities, new varieties of the host languages are emerging. While some analyse these 'multiethnolects' as youth styles, we take a variationist approach to an emerging 'Multicultural London English' (MLE), asking: (1) what features characterise MLE; (2) at what age(s) are they acquired; (3) is MLE vernacularised; and (4) when did MLE emerge, and what factors enabled this? We argue that innovations in the diphthongs and the quotative system are generated from the specific sociolinguistics of inner-city London, where at least half the population is undergoing group second-language acquisition and where high linguistic diversity leads to a heterogeneous feature pool to select from. We look for incrementation (Labov 2001) in the acquisition of the features, but find this only for two 'global' changes, BE LIKE and GOOSE-fronting, for which adolescents show the highest usage. Community-internal factors explain the age-related variation in the remaining features.