Titlebook: Isolation and Language Change; Contemporary and Soc Daniel Schreier Book 2003 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limite

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Introduction,languages. Crystal (1997: 25) estimates that there were only about five to seven million native speakers of early modern English when the English Crown began to colonise the ‘new world’ in the late sixteenth century. Then, as a result of enduring colonialism and political expansionism of the British

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Determining Input Interaction: Present Tense Concord,ch input is most influential, contributing most of the features, and for what reasons? How can we assess the mutual influence of dialects in contact, and what structures give us most insights into such selection processes? Does isolation have an accelerating or inhibiting factor on feature selection

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,Dynamism v. Retention: ‘Completive ,’,re selected from different inputs and then mixed when new norms emerge, resulting in a hitherto unknown combination of individual features. For instance, Trudgill . (2000a) show that New Zealand English (NZE) selected distinct phonological properties and came up with alignments that had no equivalen

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Conclusion,ty of settings, such as in Norway (Omdal 1977), Fiji (Siegel 1987), South Africa (Mesthrie 1993), England (such as the English Fens (Britain 1991, 1997, 2002) and new towns such as Milton Keynes (Kerswill 1994, 1996; Kerswill and Williams 2000)), or Trinidad (Mohan 1978). Following Trudgill (1986),

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