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Stenstrom's features of teen talk

-Irregular turntaking


-overlaps


-indistinct articulation


-word shortening


-teasing/namecalling (link Kuiper 1991)


-verbal duelling


-slang


-taboo

Stenstrom, Hasund & Anderson 2002

14-16yo in London.


-multiple negation


-use of 'aint'


-ellipsis of auxiliary verb


-nonstandard pronoun use (eg theirselves)

Gary Ives

63 teens. Do people speak differently because of their age? 100% said yes.


17yos informal register, taboo, slang, informal lexicon


Teen talk spreads through media

Eckert 1998

Different ways to define concept of age.


Biological: physical maturity


Chronological: number of years since birth


Social: live events experienced

Douglas Bigham 2012

Change mostly happens post-18.


Chronological age thus must be important


BUT Social too as 18 is an important age for life events.

Martinez 2011

Teens use negatives more frequently than adults because they're unafraid to seem rude. Usually informal: "no way" "nope" "nah" multiple negation and nonstandard use of "never".

Unni Berland 1997

Social class is important too! "Innit" more common among working class teens, "yeah" in the middle class.


Gender too! "Okay" more by boys, "innit" "right" and "yeah" equal for both genders.

Odato 2013

Researched "like". Found 3 stages.


1. Infrequent use mainly at beginning of clause (under 5yrs)


2. More often, in more positions, girls 5 boys 7


3. In a range of positions, before prepositional phrase for example. Girls reach first.

Vivian de Klerk 2005

Young people challenge linguistic norms and seek to establish new identity through their speech as their speech picked up from parents gets eroded in peer groups.