Publications

Publication details [#42938]

Britain, David. 2005. Innovation diffusion: ‘‘Estuary English’’ and local dialect differentiation: the survival of Fenland Englishes. Linguistics 43 (5) : 995–1022.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | language contact | language spread | language variety

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This study confirms the validity of geographical critiques of traditional spatial diffusion models of linguistic innovation, via an analysis of the spatial diffusion of various linguistic innovations from the southeast of England to the Fens.