suggests that people maintain their speech patterns through life, so generation-specific language change refers to actual changes in language over time.
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Eckert (1997)
Eckert points out chronological age (number of years alive), biological age (physical maturity) and social age (linked to events in someone’s life) can vary.
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Chesire
Adult lang and children's lang develop in response to important events
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Teenspeak features?
Informal register, taboo, slang, more freq. coining of new words, rising intonation, like (discourse marker) and use of text-speak.
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Why do younger people use teenspeak?
Youth culture (seperate from adults), personal identity and rebelling against social norms (linguistic norms), covert prestige
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Eckert (1997)
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Eckert points out chronological age (number of years alive), biological age (physical maturity) and social age (linked to events in someone’s life) can vary.
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