Volume 5 of The Cambridge History of the English Language looks at the dialects of England since 1776, the historical development of English in the former Celtic-speaking countries of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and at varieties of English in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia. This unique volume will be welcomed by all those interested in the spread of English around the world.
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Volume 5 of The Cambridge History of the English Language looks at the dialects of England since 1776, the historical development of English in the former Celtic-speaking countries of Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and at varieties of English in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia.
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The essays in this volume give an account of the history and development of a number of distinct and highly diversified varieties of English - varieties that, in varying degrees, are recognisably different from one another and from standard British and standard American English. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
traditional dialects, general vernacular usage, cahs mayd, adstrate languages, trap vowel, pronoun exchange, ahm ill, input dialects, pakeha women, initial fricatives, cinema every week, dialect marker, centring diphthongs, substrate languages, neighbouring dialects, conservative speech, dialect texts, competent bilinguals, dialect areas, lexical sets, voiced plosives, educated varieties, dialect mixture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Irish English, Australian English, Welsh English, South Asian, South African English, Creole English, British English, Maori English, Old English, Middle English, Indian English, Older Scots, Sri Lanka, Aitken's Law, East Anglia, Middle Scots, United States, American English, West Indies, New South Wales, Laurie Bauer, Great Vowel Shift, West African, West Country Browse Sample Pages:
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The essays in this volume give an account of the history and development of a number of distinct and highly diversified varieties of English - varieties that, in varying degrees, are recognisably different from one another and from standard British and standard American English. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
traditional dialects, general vernacular usage, cahs mayd, adstrate languages, trap vowel, pronoun exchange, ahm ill, input dialects, pakeha women, initial fricatives, cinema every week, dialect marker, centring diphthongs, substrate languages, neighbouring dialects, conservative speech, dialect texts, competent bilinguals, dialect areas, lexical sets, voiced plosives, educated varieties, dialect mixture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Irish English, Australian English, Welsh English, South Asian, South African English, Creole English, British English, Maori English, Old English, Middle English, Indian English, Older Scots, Sri Lanka, Aitken's Law, East Anglia, Middle Scots, United States, American English, West Indies, New South Wales, Laurie Bauer, Great Vowel Shift, West African, West Country Browse Sample Pages:
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