Parents do matter in dialect acquisition: Evidence from the Kansai dialect of Japanese
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Most studies on dialect acquisition have focused on the acquisition of lexical items and segmental phonology, while details of parental influence have been left on the backburner as a settled issue. Stanford (2008) showed that children acquire the local paternal dialect rather than the maternal dialect through the categorization of identity groups based on culture, but his study failed to include children with non-local parents, making it impossible to evaluate the nature of the dialect that those children acquired.
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