Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction
4. The lure of a distant horizon: Variation in indigenous minority languages 1
5. Part I. Variation in phonetics and phonology
6. 1. The phonetic and phonological effects of obsolescence in Northern Paiute 23
7. 2. Diglossia and monosyllabization in Eastern Cham: A sociolinguistic study 47
8. 3. Affricates in Lleidatà: A sociophonetic case study 77
9. 4. Sociolinguistic stratification and new dialect formation in a Canadian aboriginal community: Not so different after all? 109
10. 5. The changing sound of the Māori language 129
11. 6. Toward a study of language variation and change in Jonaz Chichimeco 153
12. 7. A sociolinguistic sketch of vowel shifts in Kaqchikel: ATR-RTR parameters and redundancy markedness of syllabic nuclei in an Eastern Mayan language 173
13. 8. Phonological features of attrition: The shift from Catalan to Spanish in Alicante 211
14. 9. Sociophonetic variation in urban Ewe 229
15. 10. Phonological variation in a Peruvian Quechua speech community 245
16. 11. A tale of two diphthongs in an indigenous minority language: Yami of Taiwan 259
17. 12. Phonological markedness, regional identity, and sex in Mayan: The fricativization of intervocalic /l/ 281
18. 13. The pronunciation of /r/ in Frisian: A comparative study with Dutch and Town Frisian 299
19. Part II. Variation in syntax, morphology, and morphophonology
20. 14. Language shift among the Mansi 321
21. 15. Fine-grained morphophonological variation in Scottish Gaelic: Evidence from the Linguistic Survey of Scotland 347
22. 16. Animacy in Bislama? Using quantitative methods to evaluate transfer of a substrate feature 369
23. 17. The challenges of less commonly studied languages: Writing a sociogrammar of Faetar 397
24. 18. Language variation and change in a North Australian indigenous community 419
25. 19. Ethnicity, bilingualism and variable clitic marking in Bishnupriya Manipuri 441
26. 20. Clan as a sociolinguistic variable: Three approaches to Sui clans 463
27. 21. Language loss in spatial semantics: Dene Sųłiné 485
28. Index 517