Dialect contact and new dialect formation
Dialect contact and new dialect formation
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方言接触与新方言的形成
DOI:
10.1002/9781118827628.ch8
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发表时间:
2017
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1
通讯作者:
D. Britain
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作者:
D. Britain
Dialect contact approaches to language change examine the linguistic consequences of interaction between speakers of different but mutually intelligible varieties of a language. This chapter aims to explain and exemplify that link by examining the linguistic consequences of brief, short‐term contacts, of more prolonged and longer‐term contacts, of linguistic accommodation and second dialect acquisition at the level of the individual, and of new dialect formation at the level of the community. Later, the chapter examines what happened in the longer term‐second dialect acquisition, interdialect forms and new dialect formation. Work in second dialect acquisition has tended to focus on individual migrants moving to new communities where a relatively distinct and focused ambient dialect prevails. Dialect contact theorists argue the challenge approaches to sociolinguistic principles apply in these situations as occur in the shorter‐term and/or individual migrant forms of contact. This, together with humans' seemingly innate behavioral convergence, allowed dialect contact models to explain the changes.