On the nature of isolated and post‐isolated dialects: Innovation, variation and differentiation

• Published in: Journal of Sociolinguistics
• Main Author: Schilling‐Estes, Natalie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2002
• Subjects: History and Philosophy of Science; Linguistics and Language; Philosophy; Sociology and Political Science; Language and Linguistics; Smith Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9481.00177; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2F1467-9481.00177; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1467-9481.00177

The investigation of two historically isolated communities in the United States, Smith Island, Maryland, and the Lumbee Native American community in Robeson County, North Carolina, demonstrates that, contrary to assumption, isolated communities may be linguistically innovative and heterogeneous. Exp...