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Publication details [#11805]

Saib, Jilali. 1997. Sociolinguistically Induced Process-Directionality Reversal in Berber. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 123 : 119–146. 28 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

direction | language maintenance | language shift | phonology2 | sound change

Language as a subject

Berber

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

It is demonstrated that directionality reversal in Berber phonology can be sociolinguistically motivated (cf. variables of prestige, sex, interaction,...). Implications for sound change causality, influence of extrasystemic factors, language maintenance and shift are discussed.