Publications

Publication details [#40540]

Evans, Betsy. 2004. The role of social network in the acquisition of local dialect norms by Appalachian migrants in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Language Variation and Change 16 (2) : 153–167.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | migration | social network

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study examines to what extent the speech of Appalachian migrants in Ypsilanti, Michigan, has been influenced by the emerging local norm, an ongoing dialect change, referred to as the Northern Cities Shift (NCS).