Keyword

dialect change

Description: Dialect change is the historical and ongoing alteration of linguistic features within regional or social language varieties.

Primary topic: Linguistic Variation and Morphology (73%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/dialect-change

Dialects in contact. By Peter Trud Gill. (Language in society. 10.) Oxford: Blackwell. 1986. Pp. viii. 174.

1987 · Ian Smith · Language · 876

Dialect Change

2005 · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 278

Dialect change in resident killer whales: implications for vocal learning and cultural transmission

2000 · V.B Deecke, J.K.B Ford, et al. · Animal Behaviour · 258

Dialect levelling: change and continuity in Milton Keynes, Reading and Hull.

1999 · Ann Williams, Paul Kerswill · Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) · 217

The study of dialect convergence and divergence: conceptual and methodological considerations

2005 · Frans Hinskens, Peter Auer, et al. · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 201

Norwich Revisited

1988 · Peter Trudgill · English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English · 179

Quantitative Social Dialectology: Explaining Linguistic Variation Geographically and Socially

2011 · Martijn Wieling, John Nerbonne, et al. · PLoS ONE · 171

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Ethnicity, friendship network and social practices as the motor of dialect change: Linguistic innovation in London

2008 · Jenny Cheshire, Sue Fox, et al. · Sociolinguistica - International Yearbook of European Sociolinguistics / Internationales Jahrbuch für europäische Soziolinguistik · 153

Variation and Change in Geographically Isolated Communities: Appalachian English and Ozark English

1989 · Donna Christian · 147

Chicano English evidence for the exponential hypothesis: A variable rule pervades lexical phonology

1992 · Santa Ana A. Otto · Language Variation and Change · 146

‘I don’t speak with a Geordie accent, I speak, like, the Northern accent’: Contact‐induced levelling in the Tyneside vowel system

2002 · Dominic Watt · Journal of Sociolinguistics · 135

Dynamics of dialect convergence

2002 · J. K. Chambers · Journal of Sociolinguistics · 133

Approaches to Arabic Dialects, a Collection of Articles presented to Manfred Woidich on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday

2003 · M. Haak, R.E. de Jong, et al. · UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) · 122

Second Dialect Acquisition: A Sociophonetic Perspective

2015 · Jennifer Nycz · Language and Linguistics Compass · 119

Dialects in Norway: catching up with the rest of Europe?

2009 · Unn Røyneland · International Journal of the Sociology of Language · 118

Continuity and Change in American Negro Dialects

1975 · William A. Stewart · Mouton eBooks · 102

Dialect change and maintenance in a post-insular island community

1996 · Walt Wolfram, Natalie Schilling-Estes · Varieties of English around the world. General series · 90

‘Flip-flop’ and mergers-in-progress

2013 · LAUREN HALL-LEW · English Language and Linguistics · 89

Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European Languages

2006 · Mari C. Jones · Journal of Sociolinguistics · 89

Voice Register in Suai (Kuai): An Analysis of Perceptual and Acoustic Data

2005 · Arthur S. Abramson, Theraphan L-Thongkum, et al. · Phonetica · 88

Changing words or changing rules? Second dialect acquisition and phonological representation

2013 · Jennifer Nycz · Journal of Pragmatics · 83

An optimality theoretic approach to variation in negative inversion in AAVE

1996 · Peter Sells, John Rickford, et al. · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory · 80

A Longitudinal Analysis of the Durability of the Northern-Midland Dialect Boundary in Ohio

2010 · Erik R. Thomas · American Speech · 74

Conservation and innovation in a traditional dialect

2006 · Jane Stuart-Smith, Claire Timmins, et al. · English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English · 69

Real Time and Apparent Time

2013 · Patricia Cukor‐Avila, Guy Bailey · 67

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