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In:Language Change and Variation
Edited by Ralph W. Fasold and Deborah Schiffrin
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 52] 1989
► pp. vii–viii

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Published online: 1 January 1989
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Variation in speech communities
The exact description of a speech community: Short a in Philadelphia1
Patterned symmetry of shifting and lengthened vowels in the Montreal French Vernacular (MFV)59
New results on Montreal French /r/85
Is urban influence VARB-able?95
Montreal French: Language, class and ideology107
Social determinants of the use of English in Sweden119
Syntactic and morphological change
Function and grammar in the history of English: Periphrastic do133
The English gerund: Syntactic change and discourse function173
Morphological productivity word frequency, and the Oxford English Dictionary197
Syntactic variation
Syntactization in language development: Clause status variation203
Choosing between that and it241
Inside and outside relative clauses: Pronominal redundancy in Portuguese255
Variation in language development
Addressing new questions about Black children’s language275
Structural variability in phonological development: Final nasals in Vernacular Black English301
The development of syntactic complexity in narrative, informative and argumentative discourse333
Controversies and methods in the study of linguistic variation
Some problems in defining syntactic variables: The case of WH questions in Montreal French351
A closer look at some so-called variable processes367
Some approaches to syntactic variation381
A versatile program for the analysis of sociolinguistic data395
The care and handling of a mega-corpus: The Ottawa-Hull French project411
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