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Publication details [#65013]

Zeng, Xiaoyu. 2018. A case study of dialect contact of early Mandarin. Lingua 208 : 31–43.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | language change | language contact | phonological change | society

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This article debates and collates the attributes of Nanjing Mandarin as maintained in four dialects (Jun,Tunpu, Yunnan and Tianjin) and ponders the linguistic, social, psychological and geographical factors that affected the different paths.