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Publication details [#27648]

Connell, Bruce. 2002. Phonetic/phonological variation and language contraction. International Journal of the Sociology of Language (157) : 167–185.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0165-2516

Annotation

This paper examines the relation between the phenomenon of increased linguistic variation, often attributed to lack of performance and relaxed sociolinguistic norms, and the process of language contraction and death, in casu in the contracting Cameroonian Cambap language .