On 1/11/12 3:15 AM, Colin Gardner wrote:
> I am interested in a problem of how age and generation are related in
> sociolinguistic surveys. Does anybody know if there is a recognised
> matrix of age/generation in sociolinguistics?
This may overstate things a bit, but i tend to think that the use of
generations rather than years of birth is more the result of old
analytical methods (e.g., VARBRUL, which requires discrete rather than
continuous factors) than anything based in social reality.
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David Bowie
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