Rebecca Lurie Starr

List of John Benjamins publications for which Rebecca Lurie Starr plays a role.

Journal

Singapore Mandarin is traditionally characterized by non-standard features arising from southern Chinese dialect influence. However, as English expands as a home language in Singapore, children’s Mandarin exposure is increasingly limited to formal school settings. The situation is further… read more
Ravindranath Abtahian, Maya, Abigail C. Cohn and Rebecca Lurie Starr 2021 Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia: An introductionVariation and change in the languages of Indonesia, Ravindranath Abtahian, Maya and Abigail C. Cohn (eds.), pp. 83–94 | Introduction
Starr, Rebecca Lurie and Tianxiao Wang 2021 Chapter 9. Navigating variation amid contested norms and societal shifts: A case study of two L2 Mandarin speakers in SingaporeSociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan, Ghimenton, Anna, Aurélie Nardy and Jean-Pierre Chevrot (eds.), pp. 199–226 | Chapter
L2 learners acquiring patterns of variation in a community that uses stigmatized linguistic features face particular challenges in reconciling prescriptive and local variants. The present study examines the case of Mandarin in Singapore, in which transfer from southern Chinese varieties has… read more
Zen, Evynurul Laily and Rebecca Lurie Starr 2021 Variation and contact-induced change in Javanese phonology among multilingual children in IndonesiaVariation and change in the languages of Indonesia, Ravindranath Abtahian, Maya and Abigail C. Cohn (eds.), pp. 95–119 | Article
As Indonesian becomes more dominant in Indonesia, regional heritage languages, such as Javanese, may be increasingly influenced by phonological transfer. The extent of these effects may depend upon a speaker’s region and social background, as well as age of acquisition and proficiency in various… read more
The Manila variety of Philippine Hybrid Hokkien (PHH-M) or Lánnang-uè is a contact language used by the metropolitan Manila Chinese Filipinos; it is primarily comprised of Hokkien, Tagalog/Filipino, and English elements. Approaching PHH-M as a mixed language, we investigate linguistically and… read more
The present study investigates whether prior experience with formal study of an L2 influences L3 Korean learners’ Type 1 variation (i.e., use of obligatory forms) and Type 2 variation (i.e., variation between alternative acceptable variants). The patterns of variation in Korean argument… read more
Hall-Lew, Lauren, Rebecca Lurie Starr and Elizabeth Coppock 2012 Style-shifting in the U.S. Congress: The foreign (a) vowel in “Iraq(i)”Style-Shifting in Public: New perspectives on stylistic variation, Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel and Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa (eds.), pp. 45–64 | Article
Podesva, Robert J., Lauren Hall-Lew, Jason Brenier, Rebecca Lurie Starr and Stacy Lewis 2012 Condoleezza Rice and the sociophonetic construction of identityStyle-Shifting in Public: New perspectives on stylistic variation, Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel and Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa (eds.), pp. 65–80 | Article