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Download full textPerkins, John – 1977
Evidence exists that, in the past, phonetic variants functioned as sociolinguistic variables, just as they do today, at least in societies with comparable stratificational patterns. This paper presents the significant details of the sociolinguistic environment within which the beginnings of the Great English Vowel Shift were embedded. An attempt…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Distinctive Features (Language), English
