Salience in sociolinguistics [electronic resource] : a quantitative approach / Péter Rácz.

Preliminaries
Salience and linguistic Variation
Lexical reference and social indexation
Concepts and notations
Salience as low probability
Structure of the book
Methodology
Chapter structure
The case studies
Concluding remarks
Defining Salience
Salience as a general term
Salience in sociolinguistics
Salience in Visual Cognition
Selective attention in hearing
Operationalisingsociolinguistic salience
Preliminaries
Defining salience
Exemplars and transitional probabilities
Concluding remarks
Methodology
Cognitive salience : main assumptions and considerations
Cognitive salience : further assumptions
Step-by-step corpus editing
Calculating transitional probabilities
Definite Article Reduction
Background
Details of the process
DAR as a salient variable
Analysis
Methods
Salience from token frequency
Salience from transitional probability
Further arguments for phonotactic distinctiveness
Concluding remarks
Glottalisation in the South of England
Background
Two recent studies
Salience and glottalisation
Analysis
Methods
The London-Lund Corpus
The Spoken Corpus of Adolescent London English
Modelling results
Concluding remarks
Hiatus resolution in Hungarian
Background
The perception of hiatus resolution : Methods
The perception of hiatus resolution : Results
Hiatus resolution and naive linguistic awareness
Analysis
Corpus results
Main points
Concluding remarks
Derhoticisation in Glasgow
Background
Social stratification and social awareness
Derhoticisation in Glasgow
Irl in Glasgow
Studies on coda/r/
Interim Summary
Analysis
The FRED study
Transitional probabilities in coda /r/ realisation
Concluding remarks
The operationalisation and relevance of salience
Salience and models of the lexicon
The relevance of salience
The duality of patterning
Modelling, phonetic Variation and indexation
Summary
Salience and language change
Speaker indexation in sound change
Approachesto Speaker indexation
Simulations on the role of indexation
Salience in the propagation of a change
Glottalisation in England
Derhoticisation in Scotland
Concluding remarks
Conclusions
The source of salience
From cognitive properties to language use
Consequences for phonological modelling
The predictability of salience
Types of phonological change
Consonants and vowels
Overview
Concluding remarks
Bibliography
Index.