Theorists for language usage

Question 1

William Labov 1966

Answer 1

New York Department stores :

• speakers in the more prestigious stores who aspired to use the prestige accent used post-vocalic /r/ fourth floor
• Women did this more

Question 2

Peter Trudgill 1974

Answer 2

Norwich speech:

• differences between working and middle class pronunciation of velar nasal sounds.
• eg running/runnin
• more likely in working class speech
• Women did this less.

Question 3

Lesley Milroy 1987

Answer 3

Social Network theory:

• Social network = web of ties.
• Strength between those ties density and multiplexity.
• People with high network score had stronger re-enforced accents.
• Isolated people had less strong accents.