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Peer reviewedDede, Keith – Language Variation and Change, 1999
Describes a morphosyntactic feature of the Xining dialect that is unique among all Chinese dialects: that is, the use of a preposition to express ablative nominal relationships. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Chinese, Databases, Dialects, Foreign Countries
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
