Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Challenges to accepted views of convergence and divergence in language contact situations
5. Divergence, convergence, contact 13
6. Increases in complexity as a result of language contact 41
7. Converging genetically related languages 53
8. Part II. Convergence and divergence in different varieties in oral and written discourse
9. Converging languages, diverging varieties 73
10. Converging verbal phrases in related languages 101
11. Convergence and divergence of communicative norms through language contact in translation 125
12. On the importance of spontaneous speech innovations in language contact situations 153
13. Part III. Phonological processes of variation and change in bilingual individuals
14. Gradient merging of vowels in Barcelona Catalan under the influence of Spanish 185
15. Comparing the representation of iambs by monolingual German, monolingual Spanish and bilingual German-Spanish children 205
16. Author index 235
17. Subject index 239