Does Geographic Relocation Induce the Loss of Features from a Single Speaker’s Native Dialect?

Over the past few years, academics such as Sankoff and Blondeau (2007) and Harrington (2006) have exhibited a marked interest in dialect variation and language change across the lifespan. Though it was acknowledged that individuals could temporarily adapt their language to accommodate to other inter...

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Main Author: Hollie Barker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh Library 2016-03-01
Series:Lifespans and Styles
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Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lifespansstyles/article/view/1428