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4. Dr. Anne Lobeck


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Variations in language norms, feelings about grammar “correction,” where prescriptivism and descriptivism overlap — 🎶 these are a few of my favorite things 🎶 And they’re also just some of the topics Anne and I touched on in this episode.

Resources mentioned:

Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History (book) by Anne Curzan

Agreement, Default Rules, and Grammatical Viruses (journal article) by Nicholas Sobin

Episode transcript by Graham Blair


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