Child Language Variation: Sociolinguistic and formal approaches
Edited by Véronique Lacoste and Lisa Green
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 16:1 (2016) v, 150 pp.
Véronique Lacoste
List of John Benjamins publications in which Véronique Lacoste is involved.
Titles
Phonological Variation in Rural Jamaican Schools
Véronique Lacoste
This book investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language variety in rural Jamaica. For sociolinguists and second language/dialect researchers interested in the acquisition and use of sociolinguistic variables, an… read more[Creole Language Library, 42] 2012. xiv, 293 pp.
Articles
2021 Chapter 7. Variation in stress in the Jamaican classroom Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan, Ghimenton, Anna, Aurélie Nardy and Jean-Pierre Chevrot (eds.), pp. 161–182 | Chapter
This article investigates how Jamaican schoolchildren aged 7 respond to their teachers’ production of stress. Based on a larger sociolinguistic study (Lacoste 2012), the data concerns particularly the production of a Standard Jamaican English (SJE) speech pattern that was observed in the… read more
2016 Child language variation: Sociolinguistic and formal approaches Child Language Variation: Sociolinguistic and formal approaches, Lacoste, Véronique and Lisa Green (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Article