Theorists 2

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Who researched Koineisation in Milton Keynes in the 90s?
Paul Kerswill
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Sapir & Whorf theorised what?
Language comes before thought and controls it. However this is deterministic and questionable
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Robin Lakoff found that womens language shows their subordinate role in society. when did she carry out the research?
USA 1970s
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Who looked at open & closed networks?
Lesley Milroy (she)
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Chen created what theory?
S-Curve theory of language change
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Bailey created what model?
The Wave model of Language Change
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Language is influenced by contact with other languages, accents & dialects - who theorised this?
Labov
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Paul Baker documented the use of polari, what'd he find and when?
2002 onwards - Polari has an alternative lexicon, many words are now in mainstream standard english.
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Raymond Hickey studied Dublin English (Irish standard english) he found?
from the 80s to the 90s Its became more fashionable to abandon the traditional form in favour of RP.
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