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The diffusion of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German. / Leemann, Adrian; Kolly, Marie-José; Werlen, Iwar et al.
In: Language Variation and Change, Vol. 26, No. 2, 07.2014, p. 191-218.

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Leemann, A, Kolly, M-J, Werlen, I, Britain, D & Studer-Joho, D 2014, 'The diffusion of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German', Language Variation and Change, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 191-218. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394514000076

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Leemann, A., Kolly, M.-J., Werlen, I., Britain, D., & Studer-Joho, D. (2014). The diffusion of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German. Language Variation and Change, 26(2), 191-218. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394514000076

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Leemann A, Kolly MJ, Werlen I, Britain D, Studer-Joho D. The diffusion of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German. Language Variation and Change. 2014 Jul;26(2):191-218. Epub 2014 Jun 16. doi: 10.1017/S0954394514000076

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Leemann, Adrian ; Kolly, Marie-José ; Werlen, Iwar et al. / The diffusion of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German. In: Language Variation and Change. 2014 ; Vol. 26, No. 2. pp. 191-218.

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abstract = "Several western Swiss German dialects roughly grouped around the nation's capital Bern show /l/ > [u] vocalization in various contexts. The spatial boundaries of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German are suspected to have been expanding since being described in the Linguistic Atlas of German-Speaking Switzerland in the middle of the 20th century. The present study assesses the overall expansion of /l/-vocalization by means of a rapid anonymous survey in 20 urban regional centers situated just beyond the traditional boundaries of /l/-vocalization highlighted by the Atlas. Results show that the expansion of /l/-vocalization mainly progresses in southeasterly, southerly, and westerly directions, but with much less success to the north and northwest, where the equally influential dialectal areas of Basel and Z{\"u}rich seem to exert opposing influences. Further analysis of the data indicates that somewhat differing constraint hierarchies are at work in the different places to which vocalization has diffused.",
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