Re: Orthography supporting sound changes?

Joachim Pense wrote:
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> Am Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:27:56 GMT schrieb Peter T. Daniels:
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> > Joachim Pense wrote:
> >>
> >> Peter T. Daniels:
> >>
> >>> Joachim Pense wrote:
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> >>>> Peter T. Daniels:
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> >>>> >
> >>>> > (2) Children mostly learn their language from their peergroup, not from
> >>>> > their parents.
> >>>>
> >>>> So do the parents.
> >>>
> >>> They're done by the time the kids come along -- a Penn sociolinguistics
> >>> group has found that socioregional accent is set during the middle teens
> >>> (when kids have become aware of societal groupings and unconsciously
> >>> mold their speech to blend in).
> >>
> >> I remember reading in "Introduction to Historical Linguistics" by Larry
> >> Trask that people in Martha's Vineyard changed their accents (not
> >> necessarily noticing themthelves) during their lifetime to express
> >> solidarity with one of the social groups on that Island.
> >
> > That's Labov's classic pre-dissertation study. At what age did this
> > "changing" happen? Was it newcomers? Was it permanent?
>
> I assume you read the original and know better what's in it than I do.
> Hence: you tell me.

I don't think I did. I believe it was published in a rather obscure
place, and is widely known from being referred to frequently.
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