Pronunciations
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/ˈsupɚˌtoʊkən/
Pronunciation notes
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Noun
An instance of the same speaker/signer using two or more variants of a sociolinguistic variable in the same section of discourse.
- Examples
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More examples (2)
Another useful technique is to incorporate ‘super-tokens’ directly into the top of the token file so that they are readily found when needed; for example, writing an abstract or reporting preliminary results.
In this corpus, the best example of a super token can be seen in the following excerpt (1), where an educated female speaker in her mid-twenties, who is recounting a recent trip to Sweden, switches between a palatal lateral and a palatal fricative in the middle of a noun phrase
The following super token was extracted from one of the informants who participated in the sociolinguistic interview for this research.
More examples (1)
Example (48) presents a supertoken where a Solonese signer uses SUDAH:4 and SUDAH:1 in consecutive clauses; these clauses have the same meaning, and hence are semantically equivalent (there are other examples where a variant form occurs in both pre-predicate and post-predicate slots without apparent difference in meaning, although more research is needed on this).