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When is a sound change?
On the role of external factors in language change
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James Milroy✝
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Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction 1
- Pursuing the cascade model 9
- Complementary approaches to the diffusion of standard features in a local community 23
- Systemic accomodation 39
- New dialect formation 59
- Variation and sound change in New Zealand English 69
- An East Anglian in the South Atlantic? 81
- Sociolinguistics of immigration 97
- Why fuude is not 'food' and tschëgge is not 'check' 115
- Parallel development and alternative restructuring 131
- Social and linguistic dimensions of phonological change 155
- Changing mental maps and morphology 173
- Exploring the importance of the outlier in sociolinguistic dialectology 191
- When is a sound change? 209
- Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English 223
- Social dimensions of syntactic variation 245
- Language variation in Greece 263
- A Norwegian adult language game, anti-language or secret code 275
- Children and linguistic normativity 287
- The virtue of the vernacular 299
- The Nynorsk standard language and Norwegian dialect varieties 311
- Peter Trudgill's publications 327
- Index 339
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction 1
- Pursuing the cascade model 9
- Complementary approaches to the diffusion of standard features in a local community 23
- Systemic accomodation 39
- New dialect formation 59
- Variation and sound change in New Zealand English 69
- An East Anglian in the South Atlantic? 81
- Sociolinguistics of immigration 97
- Why fuude is not 'food' and tschëgge is not 'check' 115
- Parallel development and alternative restructuring 131
- Social and linguistic dimensions of phonological change 155
- Changing mental maps and morphology 173
- Exploring the importance of the outlier in sociolinguistic dialectology 191
- When is a sound change? 209
- Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English 223
- Social dimensions of syntactic variation 245
- Language variation in Greece 263
- A Norwegian adult language game, anti-language or secret code 275
- Children and linguistic normativity 287
- The virtue of the vernacular 299
- The Nynorsk standard language and Norwegian dialect varieties 311
- Peter Trudgill's publications 327
- Index 339
