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Multicultural London English: a standalone construct

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Sociolinguistics

a new urban youth variety of English that emerged from intense language contact among many ethnic groups in London's multilingual neighborhoods.

In sociolinguistics, Multicultural London English refers to a new urban youth variety of English that emerged from intense language contact among many ethnic groups in London's multilingual neighborhoods. This meaning comes from Cheshire (2011) in Journal of Sociolinguistics.[1]

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Cheshire, J., Kerswill, P., Fox, S., & Torgersen, E. (2011). Contact, the feature pool and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 15(2), 151-196. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9841.2011.00478.x

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