Publications

Publication details [#56596]

Montgomery, Chris. 2012. The effect of proximity in perceptual dialectology. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16 (5) : 638–668.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

delimiter | dialectology | language and culture | language variation | perception1

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This paper shows that the examined effects of physical proximity on perceptual dialectology in the U.K. can be increased by diverse factors such as national borders' ‘barrier effect’ alongside more subjective, psychological borders, and diminished by factors such as ‘cultural prominence'.