caa a22 4500 388058692 CHVBK 20180307125114.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199807 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0954394500001253 doi S0954394500001253 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0954394500001253 McCafferty Kevin University of Tromsø Shared accents, divided speech community? Change in Northern Ireland English [Elektronische Daten] [Kevin McCafferty] This article interrogates the line taken in studies of Northern Ireland English that Catholic/Protestant ethnicity is sociolinguistically irrelevant. Using data from Derry/Londonderry English, gathered with the objective of answering the question of whether ethnicity matters in sociolinguistic terms, it examines the relative importance of a set of social factors for language variation. The strength of these factors (ethnicity, class, sex, and age) varies, but where change is occurring, ethnicity has an effect on the adoption of innovations. In particular, changes originating in the (predominantly Protestant) east of Northern Ireland tend to be adopted primarily by Protestants, whereas Catholics tend to be more conservative. This fits well with a general pattern of diffusion of change suggested by a reading of the sociolinguistic literature from the region. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Language Variation and Change Cambridge University Press 10/2(1998-07), 97-121 0954-3945 10:2<97 1998 10 LVC https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394500001253 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394500001253 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- McCafferty Kevin University of Tromsø NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Language Variation and Change Cambridge University Press 10/2(1998-07), 97-121 0954-3945 10:2<97 1998 10 LVC CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge