<P> Kerswill mentions that standardisation does not necessarily follow from dialect levelling; it is perfectly possible for dialects to converge without getting closer to the standard, which does happen in some situations . </P> <P> The mechanism for standardisation lies in the kinds of social networks people have . People with more broadly based (more varied) networks will meet people with a higher social status . They will accommodate to them in a phenomenon known as upward convergence . The opposite, downward convergence, where a higher - status person accommodates to a lower status person, is much rarer . This accommodation is thought to happen mainly among adults in Western societies, not children or adolescents, because in those societies children and adolescents have much more self - centred, narrower peer groups . In societies where standardisation is generally something that adults do, children and adolescents perform other kinds of levelling . </P> <P> Accommodation between individual speakers of different dialects takes place with respect to features that are salient, displaying phonetic or surface phonemic contrasts between the dialects . This process is mostly limited to salient features, geographical (distance), and demographic (population size) factors . Accommodation is not the same thing as levelling, but it can be its short - term preamble . </P> <P> Koinéisation, unlike dialect levelling,' involves the mixing of features of different dialects, and leads to a new, compromised dialect' . It results from' integration or unification of the speakers of the varieties in contact' . Clearly, dialect levelling is not strictly synonymous with koinéisation . First, dialect levelling does not merely take place in the space between dialects; it may also occur between a dialect and a standard language . Second, its end product cannot be equated with that of koinéisation, a koiné being the structurally stabilized and sociologically more or less standard product of heavy intermixture . </P>

A dialect mixing english and a local language