The Effects of Dialect Levelling, Demography and Social Networks: Dialect Recognition and Speech Community Focusing in New and Old Towns in England

Kerswill, Paul; Williams, Ann

doi:10.1075/z.hpd2.16ker

In:Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology: Volume 2
Edited by Daniel Long and Dennis R. Preston
[Not in series HPD 2] 2002
► pp. 173–204

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Dialect Recognition and Speech Community Focusing in New and Old Towns in England

The Effects of Dialect Levelling, Demography and Social Networks

Paul Kerswill

Ann Williams

Published online: 20 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.hpd2.16ker

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