Publications
Publication details [#51406]
Menteşoğlu, İdil. 2009. Intergenerational phonological change in the Famagusta dialect of Turkish Cypriots. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2009 (200) : 75–82.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study focuses on the intergenerational phonological change in the Turkish Cypriot dialect of Famagusta, a city in Northern Cyprus. The findings reveal sociolinguistic variation according to age and gender, and a potential long-term retrogression in Cypriot Turkish, favoring Standard Turkish.