Dialect levelling is the means by which dialect differences decrease. For example, in rural areas of Britain, although English is widely spoken, the pronunciation...

Dialect levelling (or leveling in American English) is an overall reduction in the variation or diversity of a dialect's features when in contact with...

Mesthrie calls the accommodation period: mixing, levelling and simplification. The processes of levelling and simplification are both dependent on a wide...

dialects, it is subject to dialect levelling where particularly Scots vocabulary is replaced by Standard English words and, in particular, words largely...

use in the law, government, literature and education in Britain. The standardisation of British English is thought to be from both dialect levelling and...

homogenisation in South East England in the 20th century (Kerswill & Williams 2000; Britain 2002). This involved a process of levelling between the extremes...

roots in Old English and are influenced to a greater extent by Old Norse than Standard English is. Yorkshire experienced drastic dialect levelling in the...

along with many others, have uncovered significant amounts of dialect levelling in Britain, i.e., "the replacement of local features by others with a wider...

India in 2003, and Chhattisgarhi was made official in Chhattisgarh. Accent perception Chronolect Colloquialism Creole language Dialect levelling Dialectology...

Paul. "Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English" (PDF). Paul Kerswill and Peter Trudgill. "The birth of new dialects" (PDF)....

staff. Levelling may also refer to: Morphological leveling, the generalization of an inflection across a paradigm or between words Dialect levelling, the...

Williams, Ann; Kerswill, Paul (1999). "Dialect levelling: change and continuity in Milton Keynes, Reading and Hull" (PDF). In Foulkes, Paul; Docherty, Gerard...

demographic changes. In comparison to traditional dialects, urban North East English dialects have undergone a greater degree of dialect levelling. A tripartite...

The Matsu dialect (Eastern Min: Mā-cū-uâ / 馬祖話) is the local dialect of Matsu Islands, Taiwan. Native speakers also call it Bàng-huâ (平話), meaning the...

term is now less common. In this region, there was previously Essex dialect, Kentish dialect, Sussex dialect and Surrey dialect, but these are now rarely...

prefecture-level city in the southeast coast of Fujian province. The Putian dialect has 15 initials, 40 rimes and 7 tones. Putian dialect has extremely...

Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in the Russian Mennonite diaspora...

official language in Comoros and also spoken in Mayotte (Shimaore), is closely related to Swahili and is sometimes considered a dialect of Swahili, although...

into three general categories: the British Isles dialects, those of North America, and those of Australasia. Dialects can be associated not only with place...

classification units "dialect cluster", "language cluster" and "dialect group" Dialect levelling Dialectometry Diasystem Diglossia Koine language Language secessionism...

24 July 2011. Kerswill, Paul (2003). "Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English". In Britain, D.; Cheshire, J. (eds.). Social Dialectology...

of Man) are not included here. British English English English (as spoken in England) Northern English Cheshire dialect Cumbrian Northumbrian Geordie (of...

centuries, dialects from many different regions of England and the British Isles existed in every American colony, allowing a process of extensive dialect mixture...

in England encompasses a diverse range of accents and dialects. The language forms part of the broader British English, along with other varieties in...

Hokkien dialects spoken in southern Fujian (in southeast China), in the area centered on the city of Quanzhou. Due to migration, various Quanzhou dialects are...

other dialects; the Chenghai dialect (similar to urban Chaozhou dialect) is perceived as "soft", "cute", and "high-pitched"; the Teoyeo dialect is perceived...

MAN-dər-in; simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; lit. 'officials' speech') is a group of Chinese language dialects that are...

representing a dialect or accent in writing is not straightforward. The varieties of English spoken across modern Great Britain form an accent/dialect continuum...

to Britain in 1842. As a result, Hong Kong Cantonese, the most widely spoken language in Hong Kong and Macau, is an offshoot of the Guangzhou dialect. The...

East Anglian English is a dialect of English spoken in East Anglia, primarily in or before the mid-20th century. East Anglian English has had a very considerable...