I am Professor of Sociolinguistics. I joined the department in February 2004, following a Lectureship at the University of Manchester. My PhD research was also completed at Manchester. During the ...

Terttu Nevalainen is Professor Emerita of English Philology at the University of Helsinki, director of the VARIENG National Centre of Excellence 2001–2005 and 2006-2011, and Academy Professor ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper synthesizes research on the acquisition of linguistic variation by learners of French as a second language—an overview that, to our ...

This module provides an in-depth investigation of linguistic variation as a social phenomenon. Building on the knowledge acquired in LIN404 Introduction to Sociolinguistic Variation, we identify the ...

The STRATAS project studies language change by developing tools that enable us to ask questions that have until now been too labour-intensive to answer. These tools are being developed by computer ...

Variationist Sociolinguistics differs from Interactional Sociolinguistics as it focuses on social variation in dialects and examines how this variation is highly structured. This structured variation ...