Download or read book Migration, Accommodation and Language Change written by B. Anderson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work marries qualitative ethnographic methods to quantitative acoustic methods. The analysis describes how internal and external factors in phonological change differ and demonstrates how these two forces interact to structure the phonological systems of Appalachian and African American Southern Migrant speakers in the Detroit, Michigan area.