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Publication details [#51696]

Croft, William, Gareth J. Baxter, Richard A. Blythe and Alan J. McKane. 2009. Modeling language change: An evaluation of Trudgill's theory of the emergence of New Zealand English. Language Variation and Change 21 (2) : 257–296.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

determiner | evolution of language | language change | mathematics | standard1 vs. dialect2

Language as a subject

English, New Zealand

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Arguing that Trudgill's deterministic theory isn't sufficient to explain new dialect (such as New Zealand English) emergence, this paper documents the usefulness of mathematical theory modeling and empirical data for language change research.