Abstract

It is my pleasure to present the first issue of the third volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation . This issue includes five papers on topics about within-speaker variation that are largely under-researched in the field of variationist sociolinguistics.

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  • It is my pleasure to present the first issue of the third volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation

  • Neither child-directed speech (CDS) nor elderspeak are typically analysed from the perspective of style-shifting or intraspeaker variation in sociolinguistics, both are clearly the result of audience-driven effects

  • By diving into the as-yet-unexploited treasure trove of speech data offered by YouTube, Lee sets the stage for future studies by providing the criteria relevant for distinguishing YouTube video categories, and by doing so in terms of the classic Labovian metric of attention paid to speech

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It is my pleasure to present the first issue of the third volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation. Citation for published version: Hall-Lew, L 2017, 'Editorial', Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation, vol 3, no. Published In: Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation

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