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Phonological Variation in Rural Jamaican Schools.
This book investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language variety in rural Jamaica. For sociolinguists and second language/dialect researchers interested in the acquisition and use of sociolinguistic variables, an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2012.
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| Colección: | Creole language library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Phonological Variation in Rural Jamaican Schools; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of tables, figures and charts; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.0 General scope of the study; 1.1 Sketching out the language situation in Jamaica; 1.2 Learning standard Jamaican English in school; 1.3 Acquisition vs. learning of speech patterns; 1.4 Research objectives of the study; 1.5 Theoretical framework: Variationist and usage-based models; 1.6 Structure of the book; Chapter 2. Variation in child phonology; 2.0 Introduction; 2.1 Acquiring sociolinguistic variables.
- 2.2 Communicative competence2.3 Phonology and phonetics intertwined in the lexicon; 2.4 Acquiring socio-phonetic variation; 2.5 Usage-based models of language; 2.5.1 Frequency; 2.6 Exemplar-based L2 learning and frequency effects; 2.7 Sociolinguistics in SLA research; 2.8 Summary; Chapter 3. Language and education in Jamaica; 3.0 Introduction; 3.1 Sociolinguistic awareness as part of language learning; 3.2 Note on language standardisation; 3.2.1 Defining a 'standard' in the Jamaican context; 3.3 SJE as the target in education; 3.4 Official implementation vs. local representativeness of SJE.
- 3.4.1 Model, input and output3.5 Modelling the sounds of SJE: Pedagogy and methods; 3.5.1 Integrated studies: Language Arts and Phonics; 3.6 Some examples of sound drilling in the classroom; 3.7 Summary; Chapter 4. Researching the school communities; 4.0 Introduction; 4.1 Fieldwork in an educational context; 4.2 The school communities; 4.3 Gaining access to the schools; 4.4 Selection of informants; 4.4.1 Choice of age group; 4.5 Data types and procedures; 4.5.1 Observational data collection; 4.5.2 Tasks and materials used for elicitation; 4.5.3 Conduct of recordings.
- 4.6 Pedagogical factors for explaining variation4.6.1 Target; 4.6.2 Frequency; 4.7 Quantitative methods; Chapter 5. Word-final ( -t, -d) consonant clusters; 5.0 Introduction; 5.1 A note on terminology; 5.2 Consonant clusters as a continuous process of acquisition; 5.3 Acquiring SJE consonant clusters in class; 5.4 Variationist constraints on consonant clusters; 5.5 Some empirical findings on clusters in Jamaican; 5.6 Consonant clusters in rural Jamaican schools; 5.6.1 Children's acquisition of clusters as a variable process; 5.6.2 Cluster variation in teacher speech; 5.7 Linguistic factors.
- 5.7.1 Negation clusters5.7.2 Cluster absence and preceding segment; 5.7.3 Cluster absence and following segment; 5.8 The role of pedagogical factors on cluster absence; 5.8.1 Target; 5.8.2 Task; 5.9 The role of frequency on cluster absence; 5.10 Summary: Acquiring variation in complex sequences of sounds; Chapter 6. Word-final vowel duration; 6.0 Introduction; 6.1 The Jamaican vowel system; 6.2 Vowel length and word-level prominence in English and Jamaican; 6.3 Methods for the acoustic and statistical analyses; 6.3.1 Dependent variable: Vowel duration; 6.3.2 Independent variables.