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Publication details [#30503]

Chambers, J. K. 2002. Dynamics of dialect convergence. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6 (1) : 117–130.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accent1 | dialect2 | migration | sociolinguistics

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

1360-6441

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This paper uses the sociolinguistics of mobility as a framework for hypotheses about linguistic variables in terms of their susceptibility and resistance to change, and for the identities of inhibitors and accelerators, within the study of the dynamics of dialect convergence.