On the role of external factors in language change: When is a sound change?

Milroy, James

doi:10.1075/impact.16.15mil

In:Social Dialectology: In honour of Peter Trudgill
Edited by David Britain and Jenny Cheshire
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 16] 2003
► pp. 209–221

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When is a sound change?

On the role of external factors in language change

James Milroy

Published online: 29 August 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.16.15mil

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