Sentence examples for dialect change from inspiring English sources

These days, Labov found, the most extreme dialect change in the country is taking place in the Chicago area.

Although intricate interactions between gender and dialect have not been previously reported for realizations of Min /dz/, the general principle the speakers abided by was rather consistent with Labov's (1990) claim of females being the leader of a non-stigmatized dialect change.

There are some pockets of resistance to dialect change, though: Newcastle and Sunderland were both shown to be pretty committed to still saying "stottie cake" a lot, and generally preserving their pronunciation and colloquialism usage.

Even a standard language that was originally based on one local dialect changes, however, as elements of other dialects infiltrate into it over the years.

But in "Farewell to the Founders: Major Dialect Changes Along the East-West New England Border," three linguists show that the line separating people who drop their R's from those who don't has moved toward the east, to the Vermont-New Hampshire border — and, in the case of young people, has even encroached deep into the Granite State itself.

For example, many people will shift attitudes towards experts, even when the experts have no expertise on the topic under consideration; people will copy the task-performance style of a professionally attired individual more often than they copy the style of a college student; and groups of high-status individuals exert more influence on dialect changes over time.

What causes dialects to change?

Redundant words were omitted and local dialect was changed to written language.

The Occitan dialects have changed comparatively little since the Middle Ages, though now French influence is increasingly evident.

Those dialects have wildly different vocabulary, grammar, and idiom; those dialects are spoken on almost every continent of the world; those dialects morph and change as people move, grow, or die.

JPL prints 30 editions of that paper and, because the dialect in India changes every 50 miles, offers 225 subeditions that include local news in the regional tongue.