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05/09/2023
In recent years linguists have become increasingly interested in ‘bad data’, i.e. early fragmentary data from audio or vernacular written sources (Hickey 2017, 2019), which can tell us something about how languages and their varieties developed previously and hence add to our knowledge of how language change works. From this perspective I will examine recordings of English speakers from the beginning of the twentieth century to show how British English gradually developed towards its present form.
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