Southern English Varieties Then and NowLaura Wright Most of the world’s Extraterritorial Englishes stem historically from southern English dialects - Southern England having been the most densely-habited part of the country. However, the dialects of Southern England remain under-studied. The papers in this volume consider both diachronic and synchronic aspects of the dialects of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Gloucestershire and the Isles of Scilly. |
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Exploring the relationship between language production and language perception in a Southern insular variety | 39 |
Evidence for koinéization in East Kent | 74 |
Some Sussex examples of a nineteenth century research tradition | 110 |
Phonetic erosion and grammaticalisation in East Anglian conjunctionformation | 132 |
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