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New-Dialect Formation : the Inevitability of Colonial Englishes.
This book presents a new and controversial theory about dialect contact and the formation of new colonial dialects. It examines the genesis of Latin American Spanish, Canadian French and North American English, but concentrates on Australian and South African English, with a particular emphasis on t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book presents a new and controversial theory about dialect contact and the formation of new colonial dialects. It examines the genesis of Latin American Spanish, Canadian French and North American English, but concentrates on Australian and South African English, with a particular emphasis on the development of the newest major variety of the language, New Zealand English. Peter Trudgill argues that the linguistic growth of these new varieties of English was essentially deterministic, in the sense that their phonologies are the predictable outcome of the mixture of dialects taken from the. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (201 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780748626410 0748626417 1280643161 9781280643163 9780748618774 0748618775 0195220439 9780195220438 9786610643165 6610643164 |