Publications

Publication details [#46475]

Tagliamonte, Sali A. and Sonja Molfenter. 2007. How'd you get that accent?: Acquiring a second dialect of the same language. Language in Society 36 (5) : 649–675.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accent1 | dialect1 | language shift | language variation

Language as a subject

English, British | English, Canadian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This case study discusses some primary school children's second dialect acquisition as they shift from Canadian to British English.