Converging accommodation in the Black Country Dialect

This article illustrates and analyses various forms of grammatical accommodation in a corpus of recorded informal conversations and interviews with 22 Black Country (BC) dialect speakers and 3 Standard English (SE) speakers. The Black Country is an area of central England to the west of Birmingham....

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Main Author: Lyndon Higgs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2017-11-01
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/1117