How we vary our speech is fundamental in signalling who we are,
where we're from and where we're going. How and when does such
variation arise? Here, leading experts Jennifer Smith and Mercedes
Durham address this question through a sociolinguistic analysis of
the speech of preschool children in interaction with their primary
caregivers. Bringing together two fields of linguistic research -
variationist sociolinguistics and first language acquisition - the
study focusses both qualitative and quantitative analysis of a
range of variables to show when and how variation is acquired by
young children, and the effect the caregiver's interaction has on
this process. In doing so, they tackle a fundamental question in
language research: when and how do children acquire the highly
complex patterns of variation widely attested in adult speech?
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