Dialect Contact

Víctor Fernández-Mallat is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. He is an editor of Linguistic Landscapes and Educational Spaces (2021) and has published articles in journals like the Journal of Pragmatics and Intercultural Pragmatics. Jennifer Nycz is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of Second Dialect Acquisition: Theory and Methods (2015).

• Chapter 1: A Multi-level Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of Dialect ContactVíctor Fernández-Mallat and Jennifer NyczChapter 2: Dialect Leveling and Supralocalization in a Rural Community: Generational Change from 7:35 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in RicoteLaura Torrano-Moreno and Juan M. Hernández-CampoyChapter 3: Da isch einfach eine Sehnsucht danach 'There is simply a longing for it': Indexicalities of dialect convergence and renewal in SwabianKaren V. BeamanChapter 4: Focusing and Feature Complexity in Amman ArabicEnam Al-Wer and Areej Al-HawamdehChapter 5: Unwitting Convergence: Kolokwa and Liberian Settler EnglishAllison Shapp, Michael Marinaccio, and John Victor SinglerChapter 6: The Relative Acquirability of Different Types of Dialect Features by Mobile Speakers of KoreanYoojin KangChapter 7: Interaction, Confounding Effect, and Collinearity in the Analysis of Brazilian Internal Migrants' SpeechLivia OushiroChapter 8: On the (Non-)Uniformity of Contact Outcomes: A Comparison of Spanish in New York City and BostonDaniel ErkerChapter 9: T-Flapping in Singapore English: Americanization, Innovation, or Both?Wesley Mark Lincoln and Rebecca Lurie StarrChapter 10: Making Things Easier: The Pragmatism behind Second Dialect AcquisitionAbby WalkerContributorsIndex

Overall, the book offers exemplary scholarship....Also noteworthy is how the usage of modern technology provides quite detailed and precise data and analyses. The chapters are, in sum, solid reference works for future dialectology studies.