Determinism in New-Dialect Formation and the Genesis of New Zealand English  

Oleh:

Trudgill, Peter ; Gordon, Elizabeth ; Lewis, Gillian ; Maclagan, Margaret

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Linguistics (Full Text & ada di PROQUEST & JSTOR) vol. 36 no. 2 (Aug. 2000), page 299-318.
Fulltext: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 299-318.pdf (572.97KB)

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In this paper we use an extensive archive of early New Zealand speakers, together with comparisons with the other Southern Hemisphere varieties of English, to argue that dialect mixture and new-dialect formation are not haphazard processes. We demonstrate that, given sufficient linguistic information about the dialects which contribute to a mixture, and sufficient demographic information about the proportions of speakers of the different dialects, it is possible to make predictions about what the outcome of the mixture will be. We also argue that we have arrived at a probabilistic solution to the problem of randomness in the transmission of dialect features from one generation to another in such situations.

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