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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 features, accompanied by an increase in the...

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...

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

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...

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

dialect levelling has increased the number of Italian speakers and decreased the number of speakers of other languages native to Italy, Italians in different...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the...