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Dialect Continuum

Dialect Continuum is a linguistic phenomenon in which geographically adjacent dialects exhibit gradual mutual intelligibility, such that neighboring varieties are comprehensible to one another but increasingly divergent dialects at the extremes of the chain become mutually unintelligible.

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2017–2026

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Dialect Chain

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Publications

18

<b>Dimensions of a creole continuum</b> : History, texts and linguistic analysis of Guyanese creole. By John R. Rickford Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. Pp. 340. $42.50.

Lawrence D. Carrington · Language · 1989 · 230 citations

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Dialect areas and dialect continua

Wilbert Heeringa, John Nerbonne · Language Variation and Change · 2001 · 124 citations

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Standardization patterns and dialect/standard convergence: A northwestern Italian perspective

Massimo Cerruti, Riccardo Regis · Language in Society · 2014 · 120 citations · Full text

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The development of dialect classification across the lifespan

Zack Jones, Qingyang Yan, Laura Wagner et al. · Journal of Phonetics · 2016 · 80 citations

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LANGUAGE AND DIALECT: SOME TENTATIVE POSTULATES

Frederick B. Agard · Linguistics · 1971 · 76 citations

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Authors

28

  1. LD
    Lawrence D. Carrington

    University of the West Indies, Bahamas

    1 publications · 230 citations

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  2. JM
    John Myhill

    University of Haifa, Israel

    1 publications · 37 citations

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  3. GA
    Gotzon Aurrekoetxea

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

    1 publications · 18 citations

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  4. JN
    John Nerbonne

    University of Groningen, Netherlands

    1 publications · 124 citations

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  5. ZJ
    Zack Jones

    The Ohio State University, United States

    1 publications · 80 citations

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Institutions

12

  1. Universitat de Barcelona

    Barcelona, Spain

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  2. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  3. University of Turin

    Turin, Italy

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    240 citations

  4. University of Southampton

    Southampton, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  5. Universitat Pompeu Fabra

    Barcelona, Spain

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    38 citations

  7. University of Groningen

    Groningen, The Netherlands

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    33 citations

  8. National Institute of Education

    Jurong West, Singapore

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

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Venues

  1. English Today

    2 publications · 26 citations

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  2. Language Variation and Change

    1 publications · 124 citations

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  3. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

    1 publications · 18 citations

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  4. UCL Discovery (University College London)

    Repository · 1 publications · 38 citations

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  5. Journal of Phonetics

    1 publications · 80 citations

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