Contact, the feature pool and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 151-196

  Cheshire, Jenny ^a   Kerswill, Paul ^b   Fox, Sue ^a   Torgersen, Eivind ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Language contact; London English; Multiethnolects; New dialect formation; Youth language

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954994418     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2011.00478.x     Document Type: Article

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