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The social embedding of a syntactic alternation: variable particle placement in Ontario English

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2020
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Röthlisberger, M., & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2020). The social embedding of a syntactic alternation: variable particle placement in Ontario English. Language Variation and Change, 32(3), 317–348. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954394520000174

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The present work investigates the effects of social constraints on word order variation in particle placement in Ontario English, Canada. While previous research has documented numerous linguistic factors conditioning the choice of variant, social correlates have so far remained unexplored. To address this gap, we analyze 6,047 variable phrasal verbs from the vernacular speech of six communities in Ontario. These data were coded for length of the direct object, verb semantics, community, and the individual's education, gender, age, an

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32

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3

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317

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348

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Linguistics and Language, Education, Language and Linguistics

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English

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2020-10-01

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2021-08-17

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0954-3945

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Röthlisberger, M., & Tagliamonte, S. A. (2020). The social embedding of a syntactic alternation: variable particle placement in Ontario English. Language Variation and Change, 32(3), 317–348. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954394520000174

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