Investigates when and how preschool children acquire the vernacular norms of the community they come from.

This volume provides a broad coverage of the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition. Favoured by the current scientific context wher

The study of how language varies in social context, and how it can be analyzed and accounted for, are the key goals of sociolinguistics. Until now, however, the

The study of how linguistic variation is acquired is considered a nascent field in both psycho- and sociolinguistics. Within that research context, this book ai

This study of sociolinguistic variation examines the relation between social identity and ways of speaking. Studying variations in language not only reveals a g