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Peer reviewedHuspek, Michael R. – Language in Society, 1986
Suggests an alternative approach to the variable rule method of accounting for linguistic variability. This alternative approach, which is sensitive to social context and the relevance of meaning, is used to support an analysis of "-ing/in'" variability in some North American industrial workers' speech. (SED)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Dialect Studies, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography
