Social Network Integration and Language Change in Progress in a Rural Alpine Village.

Lippi-Green, Rosina L.

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Social Network Integration and Language Change in Progress in a Rural Alpine Village.

Lippi-Green, Rosina L.

Language in Society, v18 n2 p213-34 Jun 1989

The quantification of communication network integration provides valuable information for the study of language change in very small rural communities such as Grossdorf, Austria. The approach is particularly relevant when study of aggregate group behavior has failed to yield results due to small sample size or group internal inconsistency. (26 references) (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Dialects, Foreign Countries, German, Interviews, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Variation, Phonetics, Research Methodology, Rural Areas, Sociolinguistics, Uncommonly Taught Languages

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