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In:Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov
Edited by Gregory R. Guy, Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 127] 1996
► pp. v–viii

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Published online: 19 August 1996
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Table of contents

Prefaceix
Forewordxv
I. The Social organization of variation and change
Dialect typology: isolation, social network and phonological structure3
Dialect and style in the speech of upper class Philadelphia23
(ay) Goes to the city. Exploring the expressive use of variation47
Social class and language variation in Bilingual speech communities69
“Why do women do this?” Sex and gender differences in speech101
Interactional conditioning of linguistic heterogeneity115
Peaks and glides in southern states short-a135
Denasalization of the velar nasal in Tokyo Japanese: Observations in real time161
II. The linguistic structure of variation and change
Variation and drift: loss of agreement in germanic173
Turning different at the turn of the century: 19th century Brazilian Portuguese199
From and function in linguistic variation221
The history of the ancient Hebrew modal system and Labov’s rule of compensatory structural change253
Phonetic evidence for the evolution of lexical classes: The case of a Montreal French vowel shift263
Phonological rule set complexity in a very large vocabulary word recognition system289
III. African-American varieties of English
The origins of variations in Guyanese311
The urbanization of creole phonology: variation and change in Jamaican (KYA)329
Copula variability in Jamaican creole and African American vernacular English: A reanalysis of DeCamp’s texts357
Contraction and deletion in vernacular black English: Creole history relationship to Euro-American English373
Dimensions of a theory of econolinguistics397
William Labov: a bibliography421
Index429
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