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Peer reviewedPaunonen, Heikki – Linguistics, 1976
Describes a study showing how a linguistic pattern of alternation affecting an entire speech community is realized in individual idiolects; an example representative of colloquial Helsinki speech is used. Results support observations already presented by Labov, according to which linguistic change is linguistically structured to a very high…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Finnish
Peer reviewedPaunonen, Heikki – Language Variation and Change, 1993
The development of language conditions in Helsinki, including its origins in a Swedish-speaking area, makes it possible to observe many processes of sociolinguistic interest. Helsinki's colloquial Finnish has served as a model for the evolution of colloquial Finnish throughout the country. (Contains eight references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Finnish, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Language Usage
