A tipping point in dialect obsolescence? Change across the generations in Lerwick, Shetland1
- 20 April 2011
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Sociolinguistics
- Vol. 15 (2), 197-225
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9841.2011.00479.x
Abstract
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