What makes a dialect stick around?
This podcast episode ventures to learn a bit about how we learn (or unlearn) dialect, and how that sometimes carries through parents and children.
Author
Anna Botkin
Anna Botkin is a first-year undergraduate student majoring in Linguistics at the University of Manitoba. She is especially interested in early language acquisition and dialect differences in families. She additionally enjoys reading and singing.
References
Brown, Vivian R. Evolution of the Merger of /I/ and /ε/ before Nasals in Tennessee. American Speech, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 303-315
Chambers, J. K. (1992). Dialect acquisition. Language, 68(4), 673-705.
Chambers, J. K. (2002). Dynamics of dialect convergence. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 6(1), 121-123.