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5. Martha's Vineyard - Coggle Diagram
5. Martha's Vineyard
The Variables
vowels in words like guy, hide, bike, cow, loud or south
Variation within the speakers
Variation between different speakers
Social Dialectology
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Why is Labov's approach new and different?
Variation is no longer chaotic, patterns of variation are seen as the key to understand linguistic change
The sociolinguistic interview
Not
an "interview"
Ideal data: conversation between friends in a relaxed setting
But
Observer's paradox
"The double bind researchers find themselves in when what they are interested in knowing is how people behave when they are not being observed, but the only way to find out how they behave is to observe them
people are more comfortable in non-interview situations
Dialectologists at the time
Competition between traditional and innovative forms
NORMs
Short questions, short answers
vs
up island
down-island