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- Title
Status-based preference of varieties in bidialectal kindergarteners: an experimental study.
- Authors
Fehér, Krisztina
- Abstract
This study investigates developing linguistic prestige of the standard/local varieties in bidialectal kindergarteners whose linguistic environment has a high level of interference between two varieties of different social prestige. To date, little is known about linguistic preferences of kindergarteners who are exposed to a wide range of speech forms on a continuum of the standard (high-status) variety and a local (low-status) dialect. Particularly the emergence of metalinguistic awareness of the prestige of the varieties in a highly interfering bidialectal environment is understudied. 77 Hungarian 5-7-year-olds participated in a VGT–MGT quantitative experiment along with a brief qualitative data collection. A significant preference for the high-status variety and an emerging metalinguistic awareness of the different prestige of two varieties have been found in bidialectal children as early as age 6.
- Subjects
MULTIDIALECTALISM; LANGUAGE awareness; BILINGUALISM in children; KINDERGARTEN children; BINARY principle (Linguistics); LANGUAGE acquisition
- Publication
Argumentum (1787-3606), 2020, Issue 16, p147
- ISSN
1787-3606
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.34103/ARGUMENTUM/2020/10