Sociolinguistic Variables in the HLVC Project

Click or scroll down for wish list of future variables and independent social variables (predictors)


Variable	Cantonese	Faetar	Hungarian	Italian	Korean	Polish	Russian	Tagalog	Ukrainian	English comparison	Homeland comparison
Morphosyntactic variation
Ø-subject & subject doubling	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔
DOM				✔							✔
noun paradigm / case						✔	✔		✔		✔✔✔
possessive markers									✔		✔
classifiers	✔	NA	NA	NA	✔	NA	NA		NA	NA	✔✔
intensifiers								✔			✔
Phonetic/phonological variation
VOT	✔			✔	✔		✔	✔	✔	✔	✔ ✔ ✔✔✔
/r/				✔			✔	✔	✔		✔✔✔✔
palatalization (sibilants)	✔
final devoicing & apocope		✔		✔		✔					✔✔✔
vowel space, splits, mergers	✔	✔			in prep.		barred-i	in prep.			✔
tone	✔				✔ (tonogenesis)						✔✔
Other
speech rate				✔		✔			✔		✔✔
code-switching			✔		✔						✔
lexical variation		varia			'com'						✔

**Wish list: Future HLVC dependent variables**
(aside from filling the gaps in the table above)
(de-)gemination & cluster reduction
unstressed vowel reduction
diphthongization
high rising terminals (uptalk)
word-order changes
like-like fillers and Verbs of Quotation
See this searchable list of studies of Asian-American varieties for some more ideas, especially for CAN, KOR and TAG.

**HLVC independent social variables**
Variable	Cantonese	Faetar	Hungarian	Italian	Korean	Polish	Portuguese	Russian	Tagalog	Ukrainian	English comparison
Number of heritage generations in corpus	3	2	2	3	2	2	0	3	2	5	n/a
Comparable Homeland data	√	√		√	√	√	√	Russian National Corpus	√	√	n/a
Ethnic orientation (and various subsets of the EOQ)	√		√	√	√	√	0	√	√	√	n/a
Age	√	√	√	√	√	√	0	√	√	√	√
Sex	√	√	√	√	√	√	0	√	√	√	√
Age of arrival			√		√	√	0		√		n/a

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