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Dialect Feature Diffusion

Dialect Feature Diffusion is a theoretical construct in sociolinguistics that explains the progressive spread of specific linguistic variables or features across geographic and social boundaries through speaker interaction and language contact.

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2017–2026

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Dialects in contact. By Peter Trud Gill. (Language in society. 10.) Oxford: Blackwell. 1986. Pp. viii. 174.

Ian Smith · Language · 1987 · 877 citations

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Television Can Also be a Factor in Language Change: Evidence from an Urban Dialect

Jane Stuart‐Smith, Gwilym Pryce, Claire Timmins et al. · Language · 2013 · 205 citations

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Measuring the diffusion of linguistic change

John Nerbonne · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2010 · 138 citations

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Geolinguistic diffusion and the U.S.–Canada border

Charles Boberg · Language Variation and Change · 2000 · 136 citations

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Advances in Dialectometry

Martijn Wieling, John Nerbonne · Annual Review of Linguistics · 2014 · 131 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. JN
    John Nerbonne

    University of Groningen, Netherlands

    2 publications · 269 citations

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  2. PC
    Patricia Cukor‐Avila

    University of North Texas, United States

    2 publications · 28 citations

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  3. NF
    Nydia Flores

    1 publications · 44 citations

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  4. MW
    Martijn Wieling

    University of Groningen, Netherlands

    1 publications · 131 citations

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  5. JS
    Jane Stuart‐Smith

    University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 205 citations

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Institutions

14

  1. University of Groningen

    Groningen, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    400 citations

  2. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    26 citations

  3. University of North Texas

    Denton, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  4. University of Tübingen

    Tübingen, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    131 citations

  5. University of Freiburg

    Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    131 citations

  6. University of Leicester

    Leicester, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    205 citations

  7. Universidad de Murcia

    Murcia, Spain

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  8. Georgetown University

    Washington, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    118 citations

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  1. Annual Review of Linguistics

    2 publications · 157 citations

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  2. Language

    2 publications · 1.1K citations

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  3. Language Variation and Change

    1 publications · 136 citations

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  5. Journal of Sociolinguistics

    1 publications · 44 citations

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