Regional variation in written American English
- Submitting institution
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Aston University
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 23131751
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 978-1-107-03247-7
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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B - Forensic Linguistics
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is a significant piece of research (80,000 words) based on the collection and the analysis of one the largest dialect datasets ever. It is the first grammatical dialect study of American English and first national-level dialect study of regional variation written English. The book is the result of over ten years of research and provides a novel and comprehensive analysis of data and presents important findings for future work in the field.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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