Dialect levelling (or leveling in American English) is an overall reduction in the variation or diversity of features, accompanied by an increase in the...

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

other classes or those outside Glasgow. As with other dialects, it is subject to dialect levelling where particularly Scots vocabulary is replaced by Standard...

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

Old Norse than Standard English is. Yorkshire experienced drastic dialect levelling in the 20th century, eroding many traditional features, though variation...

new mixed dialects (Polish: nowe dialekty mieszane) is a group of koiné dialects of Polish language, formed in the process of dialect levelling, that are...

Ionic speech forms, with various admixtures brought about through dialect levelling with other varieties. Koine Greek included styles ranging from conservative...

Chronolect Colloquialism Creole language Dialect levelling Dialectology Dialectometry Ethnolect Eye dialect Idiolect Isogloss Koiné language Register...

and (ɔɪ), page 44 Britain, David; Cheshire, Jenny, eds. (2003). "Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English". Social Dialectology:...

comparison to traditional dialects, urban North East English dialects have undergone a greater degree of dialect levelling. A tripartite division is recognised...

2012. Retrieved 12 July 2021. Williams, Ann; Kerswill, Paul (1999). "Dialect levelling: change and continuity in Milton Keynes, Reading and Hull" (PDF)....

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

development of the dialect (dialect levelling) towards Standard Dutch (like the loss of local words and grammar). Maatrichtian being a city dialect, the terminology...

differences between Scots as spoken in Scotland and Ulster may be due to dialect levelling and influence from Mid Ulster English brought about through relatively...

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

Look up leveling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Levelling is the measurement of geodetic height using a levelling instrument and a level staff. Levelling...

English is thought to be from both dialect levelling and a thought of social superiority. Speaking in the Standard dialect created class distinctions; those...

prestige is the level of regard normally accorded a specific language or dialect within a speech community, relative to other languages or dialects. Prestige...

texts in a variety of dialects known collectively as Ancient Greek. In the Hellenistic era, these dialects underwent dialect levelling to form Koine Greek...

interdialect. Linguistics Sociolinguistics Dialectology Dialect Subdialect Dialect continuum Dialect levelling Variety (linguistics) Variation (linguistics) Common...

dialect continuum. The turbulent history of the area, particularly due to the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, resulted in a patchwork of dialectal and...

Old Meadows.co.uk. Retrieved 24 July 2011. Kerswill, Paul (2003). "Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English". In Britain, D.; Cheshire...

change. There is substantial evidence for a history of extensive dialect levelling, or even convergent evolution or intermixture of two or more originally...

its lexifier. Prestige language Cultural cringe Language attrition Dialect levelling Linguistic imperialism Aitchison, Jean, 1938- (2013). Language change :...

t-glottalization is increasing in RP, the reason for this being the dialect levelling of the Southeast. She has argued that a wave-like profile of t-glottalization...

1017/CBO9780511611759. ISBN 0-52128540-2 . Williams, Ann; Kerswill, Paul (1999), "Dialect levelling: change and continuity in Milton Keynes, Reading and Hull" (PDF),...

last quarter of the twentieth century have been showing a process of dialect levelling increasing towards unmarked Northern American English (General American...

entry for without Britain, David; Cheshire, Jenny, eds. (2003). "Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English". Social Dialectology:...

pair but not pairing), which is also shared by the traditional regional dialects of Eastern New England (including Boston), New York City, and some areas...

political reasons, they are sometimes considered distinct languages. Dialect levelling Lexical similarity Lingua franca Multilingualism Non-convergent discourse...