"I Don't Speak with a Geordie Accent, I Speak, Like, the Northern Accent": Contact-Induced Levelling in the Tyneside Vowel System.

Watt, Dominic

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ERIC Number: EJ641199

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Publication Date: 2002

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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.

Watt, Dominic

Journal of Sociolinguistics, v6 n1 p44-63 Feb 2002

Evidence is presented of the levelling of the Tyneside (Newcastle) English vowel system toward that of a putative regional standard. This process is hypothesized to follow from the fragmentation of tight-knit urban communities that formed after large-scale immigration to Tyneside from elsewhere in the British Isles during the 18 and 19th centuries. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, Regional Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage, Vowels

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)

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