Accommodation in a dialect contact situation

Dialect Contact, Dialectology and Sociolinguistics~

A central probletn in considering the subjects of sociolinguistics and dialectology has to do with the relationship between these two topics, which has often been somewhat dlflcult and controversial. Is, for example, dialectologj part of sociolinguistics, or is it a separate discipline? Once their relative status and complementar): nature have been discussed, the ultimate goal of this article i...

Dialect Contact and Dialect Change: The Effect of Near-Mergers

in Kagoshima Japanese due to dialect contact

This talk reports on the ongoing tonal changes in Kagoshima Japanese (KJ), a southern dialect with about one million speakers. The traditional prosodic system of this dialect is remarkably different from that of standard Tokyo Japanese. However, young native speakers of the dialect, who are virtually bilingual between Kagoshima and Tokyo Japanese, have developed a new prosodic system in which s...

Dialect contact and past BE in the English Fens

In the dialect contact framework proposed by Trudgill (1986), relatively little research has investigated the consequences of the mixing of different grammatical systems of English. The apparent time survey of the Fenland dialect of Eastern England reported here provides an example of a range of dialect contact processes reconfiguring variable patterns of past tense BE, resulting in a variety w...

Dialect Contact, Convergence, and Maintenance in Oregon Athabaskan