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Anne-Marie Moelders
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she/her. first gen PhD student in sociolinguistics @Sociolab UDE (language change across the lifespan), feminist, co-founder, foodie and aspiring photographer.
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diachronica.bsky.social Diachronica journal @diachronica.bsky.social · Jul 23
New paper! #linguistics

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Learning to be (un)hip in panel data
Exploring quotative be like across the adult life‑span
Anne-Marie Moelders, Isabelle Buchstaller | Sociolinguistics Lab, University of Duisburg-Essen
Learning to be (un)hip in panel data Exploring quotative be like across the adult life‑span ORCID logoAnne-Marie Moelders | Sociolinguistics Lab, University of Duisburg-Essen ORCID logoIsabelle Buchstaller | Sociolinguistics Lab, University of Duisburg-Essen The quotative system is a highly dynamic domain characterised by competing traditional variants (say, think) and newcomers (be all, be like) (Buchstaller 2013). Trend and apparent time studies have focused on be like, describing its expansion across the English-speaking world and reporting incrementation amongst the younger age-brackets (D’Arcy & Tagliamonte 2003; Gardner et al. 2021). “Information on speakers’ loyalty to be like across their lifespan is conflicting”, however (Buchstaller 2015: 460). We report on a dynamic panel corpus to assess malleability in the quotative system across the adult lifespan. Our findings suggest that the grammar underlying be like remains largely stable across the lifespan. And while most socio-demographic factors do not significantly influence speakers’ quotative choices, we seem to witness the development of socially niched retrenchment in the middle age brackets, turning one of the most vibrant changes in the English language into a gender-differentiated and age-graded pattern. Keywords: quotation, language change across the lifespan, panel research
August 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I can't believe I get to say this, but... my first paper has just been published in English Language and Linguistics (Open Access). It's part of my dissertation on language change across the lifespan and I'm so happy it's finally out!
Navigating the vernacular across the lifespan: a panel study of the phonetic realisation of the first-person singular possessive | English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core
Navigating the vernacular across the lifespan: a panel study of the phonetic realisation of the first-person singular possessive
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January 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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He's also putting the glamour back into grammar on YouTube now! 🎶 #linguistics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSOl...
December 5, 2024 at 6:00 AM