Dialects are changing

Dialect is language variety in regions, a certain vocabulary and grammar belonging to a particular area (not to be confused with accents). However, dialects are changing, peoples distinct dialects are taking features of other dialect/sociolects. The local variations becoming less distinct is called dialect levelling. There are multiple reasons for dialect levelling, for example geographical mobility, social mobility, economic change and the children/young people of today. 

How much do you use technology? Did you know technology is also a cause for dialect levelling? When doing daily things such as watching youtube or a TV show you are coming into contact with other types of dialect. Listening to podcasts or the radio and even playing music is increasing your interaction with other speech varieties. These social medias are allowing people from young ages to grow up hear other dialects which they could adapt to their own changing it without even fully knowing that they are doing it. 

Other reasons for the change could be that the young people/children of today are conforming to peer pressure. If one person in a group of five talks differently than the rest they are more likely to change how they talk, they'll want to fit in meaning they lose some of their original dialect thats been adopted from parents.

Geographical mobility is people moving around and this allow people to come in contact with other types of dialect. Its a very popular thing to do nowadays; this allows a greater contact of language communities, meaning that it is easier to pick up parts of others dialect. People moving from one end of Great Britain to the other is introducing two different dialect. An example of this would be a person moving from London to Liverpool. Another is social mobility, this is when people moving within social statuses. A study in 1964 by Trudgill found that working class people had the stronger dialects. Even though language has always changed over time the mass in movement between countries and regions within country has created a faster movement of this development.