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Migration, Accommodation and Language Change : Language at the Intersection of Regional and Ethnic Identity /

This work marries qualitative ethnographic methods to quantitative acoustic methods. The analysis describes how internal and external factors in phonological change differ and demonstrates how these two forces interact to structure the phonological systems of Appalachian and African American Souther...

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Main Author: Anderson, Bridget L. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Series:Palgrave Macmillan studies in language variation.
Subjects:
Linguistics.
Applied Linguistics.
Historical Linguistics.
Language Change.
Phonology.
Sociolinguistics.
Applied linguistics.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology.
Historical linguistics.
Linguistic change.
Phonetics.
Electronic books.
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Summary:This work marries qualitative ethnographic methods to quantitative acoustic methods. The analysis describes how internal and external factors in phonological change differ and demonstrates how these two forces interact to structure the phonological systems of Appalachian and African American Southern Migrant speakers in the Detroit, Michigan area.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XVIII, 196 pages)
ISBN:9780230582422
DOI:10.1057/9780230582422