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Peer reviewedKerswill, Paul – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1993
The applicability of the notion of "speech community" in urban centers where considerable dialect mixing takes place is discussed. Labov's model is examined and four speech community criteria are emphasized: nativeness of speech community members, uniform patterns of linguistic variation, shared evaluation of features, and close…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classification, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns
