Dialect levelling (or leveling in American English) is an overall reduction in the variation or diversity of features, accompanied by an increase in the...

Dialect levelling is the means by which dialect differences decrease. For example, in rural areas of Britain, although English is widely spoken, the pronunciation...

Mesthrie calls the accommodation period: mixing, levelling and simplification. The processes of levelling and simplification are both dependent on a wide...

other classes or those outside Glasgow. As with other dialects, it is subject to dialect levelling where particularly Scots vocabulary is replaced by Standard...

Chronolect Colloquialism Creole language Dialect levelling Dialectology Dialectometry Ethnolect Eye dialect Idiolect Isogloss Koiné language Register...

new mixed dialects (Polish: nowe dialekty mieszane) is a group of koiné dialects of Polish language, formed in the process of dialect levelling, that are...

Old Norse than Standard English is. Yorkshire experienced drastic dialect levelling in the 20th century, eroding many traditional features, though variation...

Ionic speech forms, with various admixtures brought about through dialect levelling with other varieties. Koine Greek included styles ranging from conservative...

texts in a variety of dialects known collectively as Ancient Greek. In the Hellenistic era, these dialects underwent dialect levelling to form Koine Greek...

and (ɔɪ), page 44 Britain, David; Cheshire, Jenny, eds. (2003). "Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English". Social Dialectology:...