Dialect levelling (or leveling in American English) is an overall reduction in the variation or diversity of features, accompanied by an increase in the...
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Dialect levelling is the means by which dialect differences decrease. For example, in rural areas of Britain, although English is widely spoken, the pronunciation...
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Koiné language (redirect from Compromise dialect)
Mesthrie calls the accommodation period: mixing, levelling and simplification. The processes of levelling and simplification are both dependent on a wide...
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other classes or those outside Glasgow. As with other dialects, it is subject to dialect levelling where particularly Scots vocabulary is replaced by Standard...
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Chronolect Colloquialism Creole language Dialect levelling Dialectology Dialectometry Ethnolect Eye dialect Idiolect Isogloss Koiné language Register...
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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...
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Old Norse than Standard English is. Yorkshire experienced drastic dialect levelling in the 20th century, eroding many traditional features, though variation...
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Koine Greek (redirect from Alexandrian dialect)
Ionic speech forms, with various admixtures brought about through dialect levelling with other varieties. Koine Greek included styles ranging from conservative...
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History of Greek (section Ancient Greek dialects)
texts in a variety of dialects known collectively as Ancient Greek. In the Hellenistic era, these dialects underwent dialect levelling to form Koine Greek...
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English language in Southern England (redirect from Kentish dialect)
and (ɔɪ), page 44 Britain, David; Cheshire, Jenny, eds. (2003). "Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English". Social Dialectology:...
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