Before revision: Dialect levelling (or leveling in American English) is an overall reduction in the variation or diversity of features between two or more dialects the process of a dialect increasingly adopting features with widespread social currency, due to its contact with one or more other dialects, at the expense of its more local or traditional features.Britain, David (2010).
After revision: Dialect levelling (or leveling in American English) is the process of a dialect increasingly adopting features with widespread social currency, due to its contact with one or more other dialects, at the expense of its more local or traditional features.Britain, David (2010).