Publications

Publication details [#42939]

Kerswill, Paul and Ann Williams. 2005. New towns and koineization: linguistic and social correlates. Linguistics 43 (5) : 1023–1048.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | language contact | language variety | social network | urbanization

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper deals with the establishment of new towns in the twentieth century and with the phenomenon of koineization, presenting the case example of Milton Keynes, a new English town designated in 1967, and the formation of a new dialect within.