Language change : the interplay of internal, external, and extra-linguistic factors / edited by Mari C. Jones, Edith Esch.
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
2002.
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| Series: | Contributions to the sociology of language ;
86. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 338 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Dialect contact and koinéization : the case of northern France / David Hornsby
- Depicardization of the vernaculars of the Lille conurbation / Tim Pooley
- Jordanian and Palestinian dialects in contact : vowel raising in Amman / Enam Al-Wer
- "Salience" as an explanatory factor in language change : evidence from dialect levelling in urban England / Paul Kerswill and Ann Williams
- My dad's auxiliaries / Edith Esch
- Mette a haout dauve la grippe des Angllaïs : convergence on the Island of Guernsey / Mari C. Jones
- Modern Greek : towards a standard language or a new diglossia? / David Holton
- Standard English and the lexicon : why so many different spellings? / Laura Wright
- Latin and Arabic evolutionary processes : some reflections / Joseph Cremona
- There's sheep and there's penguins : convergence, "drift" and "slant" in New Zealand and Falkland Island English / David Britain and Andrea Sudbury
- Convergence in the brain : the leakiness of bilinguals' sound systems / Ian Watson
- Language contact in early bilinguals : the special status of function words / Margaret Deuchar and Marilyn May Vihman
- Contact-induced change in code-copying framework / Lars Johanson
- Karaim : a high-copying language / Éva Ágnes Csató.