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New Dialect Formation

New Dialect Formation is a diachronic sociolinguistic process denoting the emergence of a novel dialect variety through the structural convergence and accommodation of multiple input dialects, typically in geographically or socially restructured speech communities, distinguished by systematic phonological, syntactic, and lexical levelling accompanied by innovation.

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2017–2026

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Publications

49

The Dynamics of New Englishes: From Identity Construction to Dialect Birth

Edgar W. Schneider · Language · 2003 · 1.1K citations

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A Quantitative Approach

Robert G. Shackleton · 2005 · 295 citations

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Colonial dialect contact in the history of European languages: On the irrelevance of identity to new-dialect formation

Peter Trudgill · Language in Society · 2008 · 270 citations

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Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe

Kristian Kristiansen, Morten E. Allentoft, Karin Margarita Frei et al. · Antiquity · 2017 · 250 citations · Full text

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Modeling language change: An evaluation of Trudgill's theory of the emergence of New Zealand English

G. J. Baxter, Richard A. Blythe, William Croft et al. · Language Variation and Change · 2009 · 211 citations

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Authors

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  1. PT
    Peter Trudgill

    University of Fribourg, Switzerland

    8 publications · 872 citations

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  2. DS
    Daniel Schreier

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    5 publications · 105 citations

    5

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  3. EG
    Elizabeth Gordón

    University College London, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 331 citations

    3

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  4. MM
    Margaret Maclagan

    University of Canterbury, New Zealand

    2 publications · 223 citations

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  5. GL
    Gillian Lewis

    University of Canterbury, New Zealand

    2 publications · 315 citations

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Institutions

43

  1. University of Canterbury

    Christchurch, New Zealand

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    918 citations

  2. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    270 citations

  3. University of Fribourg

    Fribourg, Switzerland

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    390 citations

  4. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    345 citations

  5. University of Regensburg

    Regensburg, Germany

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    94 citations

  6. North Carolina State University

    Raleigh, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    536 citations

  7. University of Essex

    Colchester, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    144 citations

  8. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    46 citations

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Venues

  1. Language in Society

    5 publications · 453 citations

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  2. Journal of English Linguistics

    4 publications · 134 citations

    4

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  3. Language

    4 publications · 1.4K citations

    4

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  5. English Language and Linguistics

    3 publications · 60 citations

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