Ways of defining age: chronological (no. of years), biological (physical maturity) and social (life events e.g. marriage)
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Ives
West Yorkshire secondary school. 17 y/os believed their teenage speak involved taboo, dialect + slang. 15 y/os in a later study gave 2 examples of textspeak (cba and wtf) that they used in speech.
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Stenström
Features of teenage talk: irregular turn-taking; teasing and name-calling; language mixing; overlaps; indistinct articulation; word shortenings; verbal dueling; slang and taboo.
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Martinez
Use of negatives. Teenagers use more negatives than adults in spoken English. Negative words and phrases mostly informal.
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Berland
Age and social class in use of tags. "Innit" more common in working-class teens; "yeah" more common in middle-class teens. "Okay" used more by boys; "innit", "right" and "yeah" used equally across genders.
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Stenström, Anderson & Hasund
Common non-standard grammatical features in 14-16 y/o Londoners included: multiple negation; use of "ain't"; ellipsis of auxiliary verbs, and non-standard pronouns.
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Odato
Use of "like" in stages. 1) Children use 'like' infrequently and in few positions, e.g. start of a clause. 2) Usage more frequent and in more positions. 3) Usage more frequent and in more positions, such as the start of a prepositional phrase.
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McEnery
Analysis of over 10 million words of transcribes speech and 100,000 words from teens' blogs. Top 20 words used, including "yeah" and "but", accounted for around 1/3 of all words used.
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De Klerk
Young people have the freedom to "challenge linguistic norms". Need to establish themselves as different to other generations. Patterns of speech modelled on adults are "slowly eroded by the patterns of speech" of their peers.
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Card 2
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West Yorkshire secondary school. 17 y/os believed their teenage speak involved taboo, dialect + slang. 15 y/os in a later study gave 2 examples of textspeak (cba and wtf) that they used in speech.
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Ives
Card 3
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Features of teenage talk: irregular turn-taking; teasing and name-calling; language mixing; overlaps; indistinct articulation; word shortenings; verbal dueling; slang and taboo.
Back
Card 4
Front
Use of negatives. Teenagers use more negatives than adults in spoken English. Negative words and phrases mostly informal.
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Card 5
Front
Age and social class in use of tags. "Innit" more common in working-class teens; "yeah" more common in middle-class teens. "Okay" used more by boys; "innit", "right" and "yeah" used equally across genders.
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