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Dialects Converging

Hardcover • 1994 • English

Dialects Converging

By Paul Kerswill

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Recent models of dialect contact, notably in the work of Trudgill, Chambers, James Milroy, and Labov have stressed the importance of the notions of salience, simplification, linguistic complexity, and the speech community in accounting for the patterns that arise. In this case-study of the speech of rural migrants in the Norwegian city of Bergen, Paul Kerswill critically examines the usefulness of these concepts, and puts recent models of dialect contact to the test for the first time against a...Show more

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9780198248262

Publisher

Clarendon Press

Published year

1994

Language

English

Original title

Dialects Converging

Format

Hardcover

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