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Dialect levelling

Dialect levelling (or leveling in American English) is an overall reduction in the variation or diversity of a dialect's features when in contact with one or more other dialects. This can come about through assimilation, mixture, and merging of certain dialects, often amidst a process of language codification, which can be a precursor to standardization.…

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related to Bibliography · 139
Dialect levelling → African American Detroiters, Aleya Rouchdy, American Anthropological Association, American Speech, Amsterdam, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Anderson, Ann Gillett, Ann Williams, Anthropological Linguistics, Arabic, Bite, Bloomfield, Bridget, Britain, British, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Raising, Chambers
related to In Limburg · 17
Dialect levelling → A-zone, Additionally, As, B-zone, Based, C-zone, Dutch, East-Limburg, Geographically, Hinskens, In, It, Limburg, Rimburg, Ripuarian, That, The
related to In African American Vernacular English (AAVE) · 12
Dialect levelling → AAVE, African American Vernacular English, Anderson, Appalachian, Detroit, English, For, In, Texas, The, To, While
related to In Denmark and Sweden · 9
Dialect levelling → Copenhagen, Copenhagenization, Danish, For, Kjeld Kristensen, Mats Thelander, Swedish, The, Tore Kristiansen
related to Koinéization · 7
Dialect levelling → According, Clearly, First, It, Koinéization, Milroy, Second
related to Mutual accommodation · 7
Dialect levelling → In, Kerswill, People, The, They, This, Western
related to Motivations · 6
Dialect levelling → Adolescents, Agricultural, British English, Contact, In, The World Wars
related to Role in creole formation · 6
Dialect levelling → Also, Dialect, Features, It, The, Variation
related to Definition · 5
Dialect levelling → Dialect, It, Leonard Bloomfield, Mischung, On
related to Language convergence · 4
Dialect levelling → As, Language, One, Unlike

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dialect levelling dialects language german standard contact english new features linguistic speakers accommodation people process one written different leveling feature

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Dialect levellingis acontact phenomenon0.90text
the telephone was virtually always writteninstance ofwhich prior to inventions0.80text
the postlexical ɣ-weakeninginstance ofand features0.80text
which occurs only in the Ripuarian dialectsinstance ofand features0.80text
Appalachianinstance ofThe monophthongization of /aɪ/ before voiceless obstruents is a salient characteristic of southern white dialects0.80text
Texas varieties of Englishinstance ofThe monophthongization of /aɪ/ before voiceless obstruents is a salient characteristic of southern white dialects0.80text
and in the southern statesinstance ofThe monophthongization of /aɪ/ before voiceless obstruents is a salient characteristic of southern white dialects0.80text
it indexes group membership with southern white peopleinstance ofThe monophthongization of /aɪ/ before voiceless obstruents is a salient characteristic of southern white dialects0.80text
Dialect levellingrelated to BibliographyAnderson0.60section
Dialect levellingrelated to BibliographyBridget0.60section
Dialect levellingrelated to BibliographyDialect0.60section
Dialect levellingrelated to BibliographyAfrican American Detroiters0.60section

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