Irmtraud Kaiser
List of John Benjamins publications in which Irmtraud Kaiser is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 1. A holistic view on children’s acquisition of sociolinguistic competence: Perception, production and metalinguistic awareness Variation in Language Acquisition: Unity in diversity, Rosseel, Laura and Eline Zenner (eds.), pp. 24–44 | Chapter
This paper presents and summarizes findings on children’s acquisition of different dimensions of sociolinguistic competence in the Austrian-Bavarian ‘dialect-standard continuum’. Data on the discrimination of dialect and standard speech, on the use of language varieties in different… read more
2025 Chapter 11. Perceived varietal contact and use in the lives of adult migrant L2 learners in Austria: A look at the dialect-standard-continuum Variation in Language Acquisition: Unity in diversity, Rosseel, Laura and Eline Zenner (eds.), pp. 222–239 | Chapter
The variationist second language acquisition (SLA) literature has established that exposure to sociolinguistic variation is a necessary precursor to the ability to engage in the contextually sensitive use of linguistic variation. The goal of the present article was therefore to unpack the… read more
2021 Chapter 6. Children’s sociolinguistic preferences: The acquisition of language attitudes within the Austrian dialect-standard continuum Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan, Ghimenton, Anna, Aurélie Nardy and Jean-Pierre Chevrot (eds.), pp. 129–160 | Chapter
The Bavarian-speaking part of Austria is often referred to as an instantiation of a dialect-standard continuum with a range of speech forms between (Austrian) Standard German and the respective base dialects. The socio-indexical meaning (i.e. the speaker characteristics associated with certain… read more