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Hi Dave, A few other sources to add to your list, though this might have been what Julie had in mind... Hamilton, S., & Hazen, K. (2009). Dialect research in Appalachia: A family case study. West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, 3(1), 81-107. Hazen, K., & Hamilton, S. (2008). A Dialect Turned Inside Out Migration and the Appalachian Diaspora. Journal of English Linguistics, 36(2), 105-128. Hazen, K. (1999). The family as a sociolinguistic unit. In 28th annual meeting on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English (NWAVE 28), Toronto, Oct. Hazen, K., & Hall, L. (1999). Dialect shifts in West Virginia families. InSoutheastern Conference on Linguistics (Vol. 60). Hazen's (2008) chapter "The Family" in The Handbook of Language Variation and Change. And possibly related... Starks, D., & Bayard, D. (2002). Individual variation in the acquisition of postvocalic/r: Day care and sibling order as potential variables. American Speech, 77(2), 184-194. Dr. Paul De Decker Assistant Professor, Linguistics & Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Minor in NL Studies http://www.mun.ca/nlst Ph. 709-864-8132 > > > One of my BA dissertation students is planning to conduct interviews within families, > recording their speech and probably also conducting some semi-structured interviews > with them, at a later time, about their dialect usage and differences between the > generations of their family. Now, walk into any collection of sociolinguistic > research and you'll immediately be tripping over studies of intergenerational dialect > differences within communities, but variation within individual families... that I'm > not so sure is very well covered. I recall Paul Kerswill and Eivind Torgersen's 2004 > article in JoS referencing James Hurford's 1967 PhD thesis examining one East London > family's language use. I've also since found this paper http://goo.gl/JwQfl3, which > isn't quite what I'm after but does have useful discussions of the role of family. > There's a fair bit of research within families discussing language *shift*, but not > as much (that I can find) about dialect variation. Surely this has had more > coverage... Anyone? Ideally I'm looking for stuff on British English dialects, but > from a general methodological and theoretical point of view, studies from anywhere > would be useful. > > Please reply to me off the main list and I'll report back with the responses. > > Thanks, > Dave > ######################################################################## The Variationist List - discussion of everything related to variationist sociolinguistics. To send messages to the VAR-L list (subscribers only), write to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from the VAR-L list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=VAR-L&A=1