Variationist Dialectology: Chain Shifts and Mergers in Yiddish

Uri Horesh
2002 Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society  
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the use of dialectological methodology to explain language change and account for variation. The data for this study have been extracted from The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAT).
doi:10.3765/bls.v28i1.3827 fatcat:g6i2gqcny5h7fet5qli6gpiuma