/r/ and the construction of place identity on New York City's Lower East Side

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 634-658

  Becker, Kara ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

r ; Place identity; Regional dialect; Social practice; Style; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70649108057     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2009.00426.x     Document Type: Article

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