Dialect levelling Flashcards
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Who is the theorist for dialect levelling?
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Paul Kerswill
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What is dialect levelling?
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A process where modern urban dialects move closer to spoken standard English over time, while retaining their own distinctive forms
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Why are some traditional rural dialects in decline?
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- Under pressure from standard English because of education, media, global capitalisation
- Under pressure from mainstream urban dialects
- young people moving away to urban areas and bringing back mainstream urban dialects that are closer to RP
