Hella nor cal or totally so cal?: The perceptual dialectology of California

Journal of English Linguistics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 325-352

  Bucholtz, Mary ^a   Bermudez, Nancy ^a   Fung, Victor ^a   Edwards, Lisa ^b   Vargas, Rosalva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Language attitudes; Language ideologies; Perceptual dialectology

Indexed keywords

EID: 46349083558     PISSN: 00754242     EISSN: 15525457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0075424207307780     Document Type: Article

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