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<div>Sally's example is very nice, but I think we'd agree that it's
not exactly typical of what usually goes on, and that Andersen (2005)
is mostly right....... Her example is reminiscent, though, of a
development outlined in Ernst Håkon Jahr "Language planning and
language change" in L.E. Breivik and E. H. Jahr (eds.)<i>
Language change: contributions to the study of its causes</i> (1989),
where he describes how a vigorously ongoing Icelandic sound change
kown locally as<i> Flámæli</i> "slack-jawed speech" - in
fact a merger of /i/ and /e/, /y/ and /ø/ - was successfully
reversed between about 1945 and 1960 by what amounted to an official
public campaign.</div>
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<div>Developments which occur much further - I would guess - below the
level of conscious awareness are captured by the term developed by the
Norwegian dialectologist Amund B. Larsen who coined the label<i>
naboopposisjon</i> "neighbour opposition". For example, in
the Sogn dialect, items in the lexical set of<i> bjørk</i> changed
to<i> bjork</i> etc as a result of the fact ( he hypothesised) that
there was an opposition in a different lexical set involving items
such as<i> topp</i> in the Sogn dialect which corresponded to<i>
tøpp</i> etc in the neighbouring Hallingdal dialect. This is a kind of
hyperdialectism which I give several example of in<i> Dialects in
Contact</i> (Chapter 2).</div>
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<div><font size="-2" color="#000000">Peter Trudgill</font><font
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<div><font size="-4" color="#000000">Adjunct Prof. of
Sociolinguistics, Agder Univ., N</font></div>
<div><font size="-4" color="#000000">Adjunct Prof., RCLT, La Trobe
Univ., AU</font></div>
<div><font size="-4" color="#000000">Prof. Emeritus of Eng.
Linguistics, Fribourg Univ, CH</font></div>
<div><font size="-4" color="#000000">Hon. Prof. of Sociolinguistics,
UEA, Norwich, UK</font></div>
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