Cognitive and social forces in dialect shift: Gradual change in London Asian speech

Language Variation and Change

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 399-428

  Sharma, Devyani ^a   Sankaran, Lavanya ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84555191519     PISSN: 09543945     EISSN: 14698021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954394511000159     Document Type: Article

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