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Counterurbanisation, dialect contact and the levelling of non-salient traditional dialect variants
The case of the front short vowels in Eastern England
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David Britain
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction 1
- The sociolinguistic city 9
- Identity and mobility in linguistic change across the lifespan 27
- Urban/suburban contact as stylized social practice 61
- Counterurbanisation, dialect contact and the levelling of non-salient traditional dialect variants 89
- Language attitudes among mobile speakers 119
- Urban-rural dimensions to variable -body/-one 141
- From an indicator to a marker 159
- New and old social meanings in urban and rural Sweden 179
- Diminutives and their variation in spoken interaction in urban areas 203
- Areal microvariation in German-speaking urban areas (Ruhr Area, Berlin, and Vienna) 227
- Testing models of diffusion of morphosyntactic innovations in Twitter data 253
- Index 279
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction 1
- The sociolinguistic city 9
- Identity and mobility in linguistic change across the lifespan 27
- Urban/suburban contact as stylized social practice 61
- Counterurbanisation, dialect contact and the levelling of non-salient traditional dialect variants 89
- Language attitudes among mobile speakers 119
- Urban-rural dimensions to variable -body/-one 141
- From an indicator to a marker 159
- New and old social meanings in urban and rural Sweden 179
- Diminutives and their variation in spoken interaction in urban areas 203
- Areal microvariation in German-speaking urban areas (Ruhr Area, Berlin, and Vienna) 227
- Testing models of diffusion of morphosyntactic innovations in Twitter data 253
- Index 279