Publications

Publication details [#51691]

Cheshire, Jenny and Sue Fox. 2009. Was/were variation: A perspective from London. Language Variation and Change 21 (1) : 1–38.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | language change | language variation | multiculturalism | urban community

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This systematic analysis of morphosyntactic variation patterns in Anglo “heritage” inner London adolescent and elderly speakers and outer London peers, argues for socially realistic models of language change that take into consideration the social diversity of big multicultural cities.