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Publication details [#53468]

Babel, Anna M. 2010. Dialect divergence and convergence in New Zealand English. Language in Society 39 (4) : 437–456.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accommodation theory | dialect1 | insulting | speech

Language as a subject

English, Australian | English, New Zealand

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study demonstrates that social biases, which are simultaneously automatic and social, predict the extent to which New Zealand English (NZE) speakers accommodate to Australian English speakers in a speech production task, irrespectively of flattery or insult.