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Do you speak Manchester?
Gerry HowleyUniversity of Salford
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• Lack of research into regional/vernacular dialect acquisition in L2
• Lack of investigation into migrants’ language use
•Helps us to understand linguistic variation and change (e.g. Cheshire et al. 2008; Sharma 2005)
•Contributes to our understanding of SLA (Bayley & Regan 2004)
Why L2 dialect acquisition in
migrants?
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Recent studies
SLA methodology
Baker (2008): Questionnaire - increased contact with local speakers affects degree of acquisition of Utah dialect features.
Variationist methodology
Wolfram et al. (2004): Conversational interview - acquisition of the native speaker features is highly variable. Observe that orientation toward certain social and cultural values may influence production of local variants.
Schleef et al. (2011): Sociolinguistic interview - social networks seem to have an impact on acquisition of the local variant.
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My study• To what extent do
migrant teens acquire features of the Manchester dialect?
•How do their patterns of variation differ from their locally-born peers?
•How do their patterns of variation correlate with the ethnic diversity of their social networks and/or Communities of Practice? Image by See-ming Lee (CC BY-SA 2.0) http://bit.ly/jI8Nr1
Summary•Important to study migrants’ language
use for both dialect acquisition and second language acquisition
•Recent studies used methodologies both from SLA and 1st wave variationist sociolinguistics: indication that social networks and CoP may be key in understanding differences in dialect acquisition
•My study sets out to provide further understanding by taking a mixed methods approach, heavily informed by in-depth ethnographic observation
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