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Publication details [#4517]

Head, Brian F. 1981. Variation and rate of change in the diffusion of new patterns of address. In Sankoff, David and Henriette Cedergren, eds. Variation omnibus. Linguistic Research. pp. 489–498.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change | terms of address | variability

Annotation

Contribution to the analysis of the evolution of address usage by considering differences in usage from one city to another and the question of rate of change in the evolution of address usage.