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Peer reviewedSchilling-Estes, Natalie; Wolfram, Walt – Language Variation and Change, 1994
Using the case of a vernacular variety spoken on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, this article demonstrates how linguistic-systemic principles such as remorphologization, psycholinguistic principles of perceptual saliency, and sociolinguistic processes of symbolic identity converge to account for the development of leveling in this community.…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Cognitive Processes, Dialect Studies, Geographic Isolation
