Ethnicity as a source of changes in the London vowel system

Torgersen, Eivind; Kerswill, Paul; Fox, Susan

doi:10.1075/silv.1.16tor

In:Language Variation – European Perspectives: Selected papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3), Amsterdam, June 2005
Edited by Frans Hinskens
[Studies in Language Variation 1] 2006
► pp. 249–263

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Ethnicity as a source of changes in the London vowel system

Eivind Torgersen

Paul Kerswill

Susan Fox

Published online: 30 November 2006

https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.1.16tor

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