“…judgement clusters of status versus solidarity traits" (Giles & Coupland, 1991, p. 35), in which "the former values [are] typically associated with standard(ized) varieties, the latter with non-standard varieties" (Giles, Hewstone, Ryan, & Johnson, 1987). Dynamism evaluations are increasingly associated with so-called "neo-standards" (Auer, 2017), prescriptively rejected, but vital modern varieties such as Flemish Tussentaal or Danish Low Copenhagen speech, which have even been claimed to be vital on account of their evaluation as modern, cool, hip, and assertive (Grondelaers & Kristiansen, 2013;Kristiansen, 2009). Sociolinguists who carry out speaker evaluation experiments to investigate standard language dynamics had better include dynamism measures to lay bare the perceptual correlates (if not "boosters") of these emergent standard varieties.…”