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Publication details [#53484]

Nagy, Naomi and Patricia Irwin. 2010. Boston (r): Neighbo(r)s nea(r) and fa®. Language Variation and Change 22 (2) : 241–278.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | dialect1 | ethnicity | influencing | sociolinguistics

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper compares the impact of linguistic and social factors on (r) in Boston and in two New Hampshire towns. The preceding vowel as well as age, ethnic and geographic divergences were found to hold strong effects.