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A question of identity: A response to Trudgill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2008

LAURIE BAUER
LAURIE BAUER
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand, [email protected]
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I shall begin this brief contribution with a small amount of self-justification, since I appear to have become picked out as one of the “bad guys” in Trudgill's thesis. I shall then go on to agree with some of Trudgill's points, but not with all. In particular, I shall conduct a small thought experiment on the link between accommodation and the development of new dialects.

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Language in Society , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 270 - 273
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© 2008 Cambridge University Press

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