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Publication details [#64915]
Stanford, James N., Katia Chirkova and Dehe Wang. 2018. A long way from New York City: Socially stratified contact-induced phonological convergence in Ganluo Ersu (Sichuan, China). Language Variation and Change 30 (1) : 109–145.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Journal WWW
Annotation
This inquiry explores whether Labovian models for age, sex, and social stratification (Labov, 1966, 2001; Trudgill, 1972, 1974) can be effectively applied to Ganluo Ersu, a small, imperiled Tibeto-Burman language in southwestern China.