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Impediments to intergenerational language transmission may be explained by the avoidance of a stigmatized variety by members of a social category (Eckert 2008).Relatedly, perceptions of nonstandard or stigmatized varieties or variants may also be influenced by certain social qualities of the speakers, such as gender. Labov’s gender paradox (2001:26...