1.   As well as such differences in educational attainment, there are differences in the characteristic linguistic behaviour of various groups.

2.   The question which hung over this whole discussion, though, was how beliefs about linguistic behaviour relate to the observable facts.

3.   These beliefs not only explain to the ordinary language-user things she might have observed for herself, they also regulate linguistic behaviour.

4.   This is an example of folklinguistics regulating real linguistic behaviour.

5.   I could not hope to set out details of all the Caribbean varieties which might have a role in shaping the linguistic behaviour of young Caribbeans in London.

6.   Focusing involves a speech community in establishing and adhering to rather narrow norms of linguistic behaviour, i.e. putting fairly strict limits on the range of acceptable forms.

7.   The findings for one family may be generalisable to others, but where the circumstances of each family are different, linguistic behaviour may be different too.

8.   Thus the interaction between Creole and English in the talk of this group is of central interest to anyone studying the linguistic behaviour of black Londoners.

9.   We are forced to assume that individual speakers perform an analysis of some sort on the linguistic behaviour of the group they wish to identify with.

10.   Coupland studied the linguistic behaviour of a travel agency worker, Sue.