caa a22 4500 388058609 CHVBK 20180307125114.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0954394500001344 doi S0954394500001344 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0954394500001344 Takano Shoji Hokusei Gakuen University A quantitative study of gender differences in the ellipsis of the Japanese postpositional particles -wa and -ga: Gender composition as a constraint on variability [Elektronische Daten] [Shoji Takano] It has been claimed that the ellipsis of postpositional particles is one of the properties of Japanese women's language. The validity of this claim, however, is compromised by several methodological problems in prior research in this area: (1) the subjective comparison of bare percentages without any statistical verification of male-female differences; (2) the neglect of the intersecting relationships among a variety of potential constraints which simultaneously influence the speaker's choice of the variable; and (3) the exclusive focus on single-sex interactions. Conducting multivariate analyses of conversational data from both single-sex and cross-sex peer interactions, this preliminary study demonstrates the overgeneralization of gender-linked differentiation in past work due to the neglect of the relative strength of potential intersecting factors. The results also reveal statistically significant degrees of stylistic intragender variability across different types of gender composition, which counters the static approach to a social variable of gender in the traditional sociolinguistic paradigm. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Language Variation and Change Cambridge University Press 10/3(1998-10), 289-323 0954-3945 10:3<289 1998 10 LVC https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394500001344 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394500001344 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Takano Shoji Hokusei Gakuen University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Language Variation and Change Cambridge University Press 10/3(1998-10), 289-323 0954-3945 10:3<289 1998 10 LVC CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge