Prof. Dr. David Britain

Chair of Modern English Linguistics

 

Contact information

Phone:  +41 31 631 83 81
Fax:  +41 31 631 36 36
Email:  britain@ens.unibe.ch
Consultation hours:

I am on sabbatical leave from February 1st 2013 to July 31st 2013. If you wish to contact me, please send an email.

Room:  B265

Research interests

Language variation and change, English dialectology (esp. of Southern England, East Anglia and the Anglophone Southern Hemisphere), sociophonology, dialect contact, new dialect formation and second dialect acquisition, language and dialect obsolescence, the emergent dialects of diaspora communities, and the interface between dialectology and human geography.

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