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Publication details [#35168]

Cook, Eung-Do. 1991. Linguistic divergence in Fort Chipewyan. Language in Society 20 (3) : 423–440.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change | language contact | linguistic convergence | sociolinguistics | world view

Language as a subject

Chipewyan

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper criticizes the claims of Scollon and Scollon (1979) that sibilant alternations in Chipewyan are caused by interlinguistic convergence and correlated with 'world views'.