paragraph 3 plan

Question 1

merge

Answer 1

Age-specific language use refers to how a person’s language changes throughout the course of his or her life. Cohort particular use of language refers to language of distinct cohorts of persons living within a linguistic community.

Question 2

theorists

Answer 2

Labov (1994) proposed that people’s speech patterns tend to remain consistent as they age. According to eckerts, “only the middle aged are seen as engaging in mature use as doing language rather than learing it or losing it”