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Publication details [#46476]

Haddican, Bill. 2007. Suburbanization and language change in Basque. Language in Society 36 (5) : 677–706.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change | social change | standard1 vs. dialect2 | standardization

Language as a subject

Basque

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper discusses standardization and language change in Oiartzun, a Basque town, thus adding to research on the often unique behavior of emblematic local characteristics in language change, especially in speech communities that underwent rapid social and economic change.