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Adults are set off from other age groups in various ways, some of which are linguistically encoded.

An example of this is the use of personal pronouns in Argentina:

The second person singular pronoun has two forms "vos" and "usted" Along with their associated verbal forms. The first one is the unmarked case, is known as "Voseo" and is used in informal conversations with friends and family, whereas the second is marked, and used in formal situations to refer to superiors, strangers, and generally, the elderly. In other words, asymmetrical relations.

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-Adults have been shown to be more conservative in their linguistic variables. This has been attributed to the desired use of the standard language that is used in the workplace. Eckert, Penelope (1997)
- Other reasons: social pressure and child rearing.
- According to Holmes (1992:186) "in their 'middle years' people are most likely to recognize the society's speech norms and use the fewest vernacular forms".
- They have undergone what Chambers (2003: 195) calls linguistic "retrenchment": a retreat from the non-standard variants used in youth followed by stabilization.

1. Tagliamonte, Sali. Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Print.

2. Eckert, Penelope (1997). Age as a Sociolinguistic Variable. In Coulmas, Florian [ed], The Handbook of Sociolinguistics (pp. 151-67). Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1997. Print.

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ADULTHOOD

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1. There has been more research on the language of children and adolescents than on the language of the adults. This state of affairs is unfortunate given the middle-aged bias that exists in research on age and generation-specific use of language. Researchers have seen their language as a standard against which the language of both the language of both older and younger speakers can be measured.

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2- Social norms: Markedness and unmarkedness

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2- Social norms: Markedness and unmarkedness

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Adult language is deemed to be the "unmarked" choice. Young children who use some adult language forms will probably be regarded as sophisticated, or even pass unnoticed. However, if an adult chooses a children-exclusive term, they will sound childish. Similarly, when teenagers choose adult usage, they will regularly attract little attention. Conversely, middle-aged individuals using modern terms might be judged. This would be a marked case.

-Cheshire, J. (2006) Age and Generation-specific use of language. Queen Mary, University of London.

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Convergence towards the standard during adulthood (adapted from Downes, 1984)