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Peer reviewedSchilling-Estes, Natalie; Wolfram, Walt – Language, 1999
Comparison of the moribund dialects of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, and Smith Island, Maryland, demonstrates that valuable insight into the patterning of variation and change in language death can be obtained by investigating moribund varieties of healthy languages. Discusses comparative investigation of two kinds of linguistic decay:…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dialects
Peer reviewedSchilling-Estes, Natalie; Wolfram, Walt – Language Variation and Change, 1994
Using the case of a vernacular variety spoken on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, this article demonstrates how linguistic-systemic principles such as remorphologization, psycholinguistic principles of perceptual saliency, and sociolinguistic processes of symbolic identity converge to account for the development of leveling in this community.…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Cognitive Processes, Dialect Studies, Geographic Isolation
