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For different reasons, speakers re-use recently used  or heard linguistic options whenever they can, a tendency which is referred to  as ‘persistence’ in the present paper. The phenomenon has been largely neglected  in extant corpus-based, variationist research, and no standard methodology for  dealing with the phenomenon is available. By analyzing three well-known  alternations (analytic vs. synthetic comparatives, particle placement, and  future marker choice) in several spoken corpora of English, this paper  demonstrates that factoring in persistence increases the researcher’s ability to  account for linguistic variation. It is also shown that persistence itself is  subject to several determinants, such as textual distance between two successive  choice contexts in discourse, or turn-taking. In conclusion, I argue that  persistence is a factor which deserves empirical attention, and that its  existence has consequences for both linguistic theory and  practice.

Language users as creatures of habit: A corpus-based analysis of persistence in spoken English