Milroy Belfast study

• Milroy and Milroy

  concluded a higher social network contained more non standard forms
• what is a criticism of milroy study?

  only looked at one community so didn't consider other communities
• Milroyandmilroy suggest which gender has a dense network

  Men have dense, closed networks. They use a high number of non-standard forms. Women have less dense and open networks. They use a much smaller number of non-standard forms.
• Which study challenges milroy in Belfast

  A study of the Clonard women and Hammer men in Belfast challenges these findings.
• What did study in Belfast find

  This study found that due to a rise in unemployment, men had to travel out of the community to find a job and the women all ended up working together in the town.
• Which gender looking at clonard women at hammer men in Belfast found uses closed networks and open networks 


  As a result, the men ended up with quite open networks and women ended up with quite a closed network.
• Milroy looked at the 


  Non Standard pronunciation of a