Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects

Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 231
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ISBN-10 : 9781107003453
ISBN-13 : 1107003458
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Download or read book Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects written by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of grammatical differences between British English dialects, drawing on authentic speech data collected in over thirty counties. The book presents a new approach known as 'corpus-based dialectometry', which focuses on the joint quantitative measurement of dozens of grammatical features to gauge regional differences.


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