| Title: | "I've always spoke like this, you see" : preterite-to-participle leveling in American and British Englishes |
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| Authors: | ID Chatten, Alicia (Author)
ID Baxter, Kimberley (Author)
ID Mas, Erwanne (Author)
ID Peña, Jailyn (Author)
ID Tabachnick, Guy (Author)
ID Duncan, Daniel (Author)
ID MacKenzie, Laurel (Author) |
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| Files: |  https://read.dukeupress.edu/american-speech/article-pdf/99/1/3/2075865/0990003.pdf
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Unknown |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | UNG - University of Nova Gorica
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| Abstract: | Some English verbs use distinct forms for the preterite (i.e., simple past; e.g., I broke the door) and the past participle (e.g., I’ve broken the door). These verbs may variably show use of the preterite form in place of the participle (e.g., I’ve broke the door), which the authors call participle leveling. This article contributes the first detailed variationist study of participle leveling by investigating the phenomenon in perfect constructions using data collected from three corpora of conversational speech: two of American English and one of British English. A striking degree of similarity is found between the three corpora in both the linguistic and the extralinguistic constraints on variation. Constraints on participle leveling include tense of the perfect construction, verb frequency, and phonological similarity between preterite and participle forms. The variable is stable in real time and socially stratified. The article relates the findings to theoretical linguistic treatments of the variation and to questions of its origin and spread in Englishes transatlantically. |
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| Keywords: | morphological variation, analogical leveling, American English, British English |
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| Publication date: | 01.02.2024 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2024 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 3-46 |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 99, issue 1 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/RUNG-8976  |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 191664899 |
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| ISSN: | 0003-1283 |
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| UDC: | 81 |
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| ISSN on article: | 1527-2133 |
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| eISSN: | 1527-2133 |
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| DOI: | 10.1215/00031283-9940654 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UNG:REP:AU6FAYLR |
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| Publication date in RUNG: | 08.04.2024 |
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