(Un)Varied Experiences

• Autores: Abby Walker, Alexander Mcallister
• Localización: The Handbook of Usage Based Linguistics / coord. por Manuel Díaz Campos, Sonia Balasch, 2023, ISBN 9781119839859, págs. 491-508
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Usage-based models posit that people are highly sensitive to the socially and linguistically rich structures that permeate language practice, and that they use their dynamic knowledge of these patterns in even the most basic linguistic processing tasks. This chapter focuses on a different type of experiential difference across listeners, namely how much variability they have been exposed to in the long-term. This investigation essentially compares a listener exposed primarily to Dialect A, referred to as a Uniform-Input listener, to a listener with substantial exposure to both Dialect A and B, i.e., a Mixed-Input listener. The chapter provides an overview of linguistic variability, both discussing sources of variability that all listeners are exposed to, and how exposure to variability can differ across listeners. Next, research is surveyed that compares the behavior of Uniform- and Mixed-Input listeners and discusses the implications of these findings for usage-based accounts of language cognition.References