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  • 4 - Dialect Contact and the Emergence of New Varieties of English

  • Edited by Danae Perez, Marianne Hundt, Johannes Kabatek, Daniel Schreier
  • Book:
    English and Spanish
    Published online:
    17 September 2021
    Print publication:
    30 September 2021, pp 53-75

  • Summary

    Varieties of English arose during the colonial period (roughly 1600-1900) at a number of different overseas locations. The specific situations of dialect contact and mixture and the sociolinguistic scenarios which obtained at these locations were instrumental in the variety profiles which resulted. Contact between dialects happened because of the different sources of emigrants to key locations such as Canada or New Zealand and from the status of these groups in the British colonies where they settled. In recent decades there have been several studies of how the varieties, which can now be observed in the modern Anglophone countries throughout the world, achieved the profiles they show. These studies throw light on the nature of language contact and the outcomes it engenders.