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Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English
Abstract
Introduction: geographical diffusion vs. levelling This chapter is an attempt to bring out general tendencies in the regional dialect levelling which, it is often claimed, is leading to the loss of localised features in urban and rural varieties of English in Britain, to be replaced with features found over a wider region. In particular, I consider two possible
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- Authors
- Kerswill, P.
- Venue
- IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Published
- 2003-08-29
- Pages
- 223-243
- ISSN
- 1385-7908 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2130169180
- Cited by
- 396
- References
- 20
- FWCI
- 42.00
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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