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Stenstrom

Features of teen-talk include:


irregular turn taking, overlaps, indistinct articulation, word shortening, teasing and name calling (males link Kuiper '91), verbal duelling, slang, taboo, language mixing (e.g. BEV)

Stenstrom, Anderson, Hasund (2002)

14-16 yo girls in London.


-Multiple negation


-Use of ain't


-Ellipsis of auxiliary verbs


- Nonstandard pronoun use

Gary Ives survey

63 teens at West Yorkshire high school asked if people speak differently because of their age, 100% said yes.

Gary Ives speech features

Informal register, taboo, slang, clear dialects and informal lexis. Seeping into younger years because of phones & social media.

Eckert (1998)

Different kinds of age.


Biological: physical maturity


Social: life experiences


Chronological: years


Because of this we can't generalise certain features to age groups, it develops bc of life events. (CHESHIRE 1987 SUPPORT)

Douglas Bigham (2012)

Change in language patterns most likely to happen post-18 at age he calls 'emerging adulthood'- indicating Eckert's CHRONOLOGICAL AGE may still matter.

Ignacio Martinez (2011)

Teens use negatives more frequently than adults because they're direct and not bothered about being rude. Mostly informal: "nope" "nah" and nonstandard use of "never"

Unni Berland (1997)

Social class is important in teen talk. "Innit" more common in working class teens whilst "yeah" in middle class.

Odato (2013)

Use of "like" as a discourse marker. 3 stages.


1. Infrequent, usually beginning a clause <5


2. More often in more positions, girls at 5, boys at 7.


3. Range of positions, often before prepositional phrase. Girls reach earlier than boys.

Vivian De Klerk (2005)

Young people seek to establish identity by challenging linguistic norms. Pick up speech from social groups, needing to sound different from parents.