Publications

Publication details [#1750]

Bright, William O. and A.K. Ramanujan. 1964. Sociolinguistic variation and language change. Proceedings of the International Congress of Linguists/Actes du Congrès International des Linguistes 9 : 1107–1113.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change | sociolect

Language as a subject

Tamil | Tulu

Annotation

An examination of Tamil and Tulu data leads to the hypothesis that upper and lower class dialects innovate independently of one another (both in conscious and unconscious ways).

Reprints

Bright, William O. 1976. In Bright, William O., ed. Variation and change in language. Selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil. Stanford UP. pp. 47–56.