Isolation within Isolation: The invisible Outer Banks dialect

Abstract

It is sometimes assumed by sociolinguists that small, isolated speech communities will not tolerate a profusion of forms over a long period of time without discernible movement toward a reduction of variants.l In other words, it is believed that a homogenous social situation will eventually result in a homogenous dialect. At the same

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