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Accent Levelling

Accent Levelling is a sociolinguistic process within dialect levelling whereby phonetic and phonological variations between regional or social accents are reduced, leading to increased phonological convergence in speech patterns across interacting speaker groups.

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2017–2026

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Variants

Accent Leveling

Parents

Publications

15

Convergent explanation and alternative regularization patterns:<i>Were/weren't</i>leveling in a vernacular English variety

Natalie Schilling‐Estes, Walt Wolfram · Language Variation and Change · 1994 · 215 citations

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Another chapter in the story of /r/: ‘Labiodental’ variants in British English

Paul Foulkes, Gerard Docherty · Journal of Sociolinguistics · 2000 · 162 citations

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‘I don’t speak with a Geordie accent, I speak, like, the Northern accent’: Contact‐induced levelling in the Tyneside vowel system

Dominic Watt · Journal of Sociolinguistics · 2002 · 136 citations

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Non-standard English and dialect levelling

James Milroy, Lesley Milroy · 2014 · 124 citations

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Models of linguistic change and diffusion: new evidence from dialect levelling in British English *

Paul Kerswill · Brain Research · 2002 · 97 citations

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Authors

15

  1. PK
    Paul Kerswill

    University of Reading, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 139 citations

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  2. ZB
    Zoë Boughton

    University of Exeter, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 107 citations

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  3. JT
    Johan Taeldeman

    1 publications · 19 citations

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  4. GD
    Gerard Docherty

    Newcastle University, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 162 citations

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  5. WW
    Walt Wolfram

    North Carolina State University, United States

    1 publications · 215 citations

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Institutions

7

  1. University of Exeter

    Exeter, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    107 citations

  2. Qassim University

    Buraidah, Saudi Arabia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    25 citations

  3. University of York

    York, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    136 citations

  4. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    55 citations

  5. North Carolina State University

    Raleigh, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    430 citations

  6. Newcastle University

    Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    162 citations

  7. University of Leeds

    Leeds, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    162 citations

  8. University of Bern

    Bern, Switzerland

    1 publications

    12 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Sociolinguistics

    3 publications · 353 citations

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  2. Language Variation and Change

    2 publications · 240 citations

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  3. Journal of French Language Studies

    JFLS · 2 publications · 107 citations

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  4. Folia Linguistica

    2 publications · 77 citations

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  5. English Today

    1 publications · 48 citations

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