Age differences: a study on teenager English

Abstract

This study is concerned with the use of the English language by a particular group: British teenagers. One of the aims of this study is to present how the age factor plays a crucial role in the linguistic change and how, more specifically, the period of adolescence is a transitional stage for the individual, not only at the psychological and physical levels but also linguistically. The main focus of this research is to explain and to analyse the main phonological, lexical, and grammatical features that characterize the language of the British teenagers as a distinctive and unique language