Language Change in Child and Adult Hebrew (1995).pdf

Language Change in Child
and Adult Hebrew
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Language Change in Child
and Adult Hebrew
A Psycholinguistic Perspective
DORIT DISKIN RAVID
New York Oxford
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1995
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Copyright © 1995 by Dorit Diskin Ravid
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ravid, Dorit Diskin.
Language change in child and adult Hebrew : a psycholinguistic
perspective / Dorit Diskin Ravid.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-19-508893-X (cloth).—ISBN 0-19-509036-5 (pbk.)
1. Hebrew language—Acquisition. 2. Hebrew language—Variation.
3. Hebrew language—Inflection. I. Title. II. Series.
1995
—dc20 93-41770
135798642
Printed in the United States of America
on acid-free paper
To Arik and Ruth—
Thank you.
Contents
Technical Notes, xi
1. Background, 3
. Introduction, 3
Sources of Variation in Contemporary Hebrew, 3
Normativism and Linguistic Reality, 6
The Rise of Two Sociolects in Modern Hebrew, 8
Age Differences in the munity, 11
. Language Variation and Modern Hebrew, 16
Classification of Varieties of Spoken Hebrew Usage, 16
Deviant Phenomena in Spoken Hebrew Usage, 17
Transient Phenomena, 17
Nonstandard Deviations, 17