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The onset of industrialisation in the late eighteenth century introduced changes to the urban landscape of Europe which were unprecedented in scale, and less reversible than all previous ones had been. In those industrial cities that mushroomed out of small townships, like Manchester, Saint Etienne, Dortmund, new urban varieties arose as modified forms of their hinterland dialect, with the standard language being ‘parachuted in’ from outside. In long-established metropolises like London and Paris, urban dialect and standard language already coexisted within the community, so the effect of industrial growth was to realign the varieties in circulation, through an extension in the distribution and functional range of the standard language, and a radical modification of vernacular speech through dialect-levelling. We might expect the effect of standardisation and levelling to be to reduce dialect differences. However, when we look at Parisian speech at the beginning of the twentieth centur
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The onset of industrialisation in the late eighteenth century introduced changes to the urban landscape of Europe which were unprecedented in scale, and less reversible than all previous ones had been. In those industrial cities that mushroomed out of small townships, like Manchester, Saint Etienne, Dortmund, new urban varieties arose as modified forms of their hinterland dialect, with the standard language being ‘parachuted in’ from outside. In long-established metropolises like London and Paris, urban dialect and standard language already coexisted within the community, so the effect of industrial growth was to realign the varieties in circulation, through an extension in the distribution and functional range of the standard language, and a radical modification of vernacular speech through dialect-levelling. We might expect the effect of standardisation and levelling to be to reduce dialect differences. However, when we look at Parisian speech at the beginning of the twentieth centur
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