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  • Dialect Contact: From Speaker to Community-Based Perspectives
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  • 2025
  • Published by: Georgetown University Press
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New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individuals

Dialect contact occurs whenever speakers of mutually intelligible language varieties interact. Many linguists are interested in the outcome of such contact—how it leads people and languages to vary and change, and what such patterns can reveal about language, mind, and society. Dialect contact can thus be approached as an individual-level or a community-level phenomenon; a cognitive process or a social one.

In Dialect Contact, international contributors present studies touching on both perspectives, representing languages and varieties spanning five continents. The chapters shed light on the many factors influencing dialect change and highlight the importance of considering the contact dynamics that are specific to individual people and communities.

This book will benefit sociolinguistics scholars and students interested in the outcomes of dialect contact, the implications of contact for understanding language change, and the various methods used to investigate contact effects in individuals and communities.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half Title Page, Series Page, Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. 1. A Multi-level Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of Dialect Contact
  2. Víctor Fernández-Mallat and Jennifer Nycz
  3. pp. 1-10
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  1. 2. Dialect Leveling and Supralocalization in a Rural Community: Generational Change from 7:35 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Ricote
  2. Laura Torrano-Moreno and Juan M. Hernández-Campoy
  3. pp. 11-32
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  1. 3. Da isch einfach eine Sehnsucht danach ‘There is simply a longing for it': Indexicalities of Dialect Convergence and Renewal in Swabian
  2. Karen V. Beaman
  3. pp. 33-64
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  1. 4. Focusing and Feature Complexity in Amman Arabic
  2. Enam Al-Wer and Areej Al-Hawamdeh
  3. pp. 65-82
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  1. 5. Unwitting Convergence: Kolokwa and Liberian Settler English
  2. Allison Shapp, Michael Marinaccio, and John Victor Singler
  3. pp. 83-100
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  1. 6. The Relative Acquirability of Different Types of Dialect Features by Mobile Speakers of Korean
  2. Yoojin Kang
  3. pp. 101-118
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  1. 7. Interaction, Confounding Effect, and Collinearity in the Analysis of Brazilian Internal Migrants' Speech
  2. Livia Oushiro
  3. pp. 119-136
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  1. 8. On the (Non-)Uniformity of Contact Outcomes: A Comparison of Spanish in New York City and Boston
  2. Daniel Erker
  3. pp. 137-160
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  1. 9. T-Flapping in Singapore English: Americanization, Innovation, or Both?
  2. Wesley Mark Lincoln and Rebecca Lurie Starr
  3. pp. 161-182
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  1. 10. Making Things Easier: The Pragmatism behind Second Dialect Acquisition
  2. Abby Walker
  3. pp. 183-200
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 201-204
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 205-206
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