Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Data collection
5. On the validity of crowdsourced data 10
6. Variation in space and society 34
7. Part II. Methodology
8. The Phonologie du français contemporain project in Quebec 60
9. “Going standard” on a blank page 84
10. Sociogeographical differences in the pronunciation of Anglicisms in Spanish 106
11. Part III. Case studies
12. Historical corpora and linguistic geography of Spanish 134
13. Dialectology as a matter of gradience 154
14. Testing Twitter data on a morphosyntactic variable 176
15. Part IV. Theory
16. Sketching out a virtual framework for Romance geolinguistics 198
17. Index 217