Northern fronting and the north Lincolnshire merger of the reflexes of ME /u:/ and ME /o

Language Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 221-229

  Britton, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lexical diffusion; Linguistic profile; Northern Fronting; Open Syllable Lengthening; Push chain; Vowel shift

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944479590     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(01)00030-4     Document Type: Note

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