When 'speech islands' aren't islands parallel independent development, drift, and minimal levels of contact for diffusion

Diachronica

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-35

  Keiser, Steven Hartman ^a  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialect contact; Diffusion; Diphthong; Drift; Isolation; Monophthongization; Parallel independent development; Pennsylvania German; Sound change; Speech island

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949126966     PISSN: 01764225     EISSN: 15699714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/dia.26.1.01kei     Document Type: Article

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