Modelling linguistic change. The past and the present of the future in Brazilian Portuguese

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Twenty-five authors on twelve languages, sixteen language varieties, and eighteen hundred and eighty-eight speakers 1
4. Phrasal Verbs in Venetan and Regional Italian 9
5. Regional variation in intonation. Nuclear rising-falling contours in Cologne German 23
6. Internal and external factors for clitic-shape variation in North-Eastern Catalan 37
7. The native / non-native speaker distinction and the diversity of linguistics of young people in Swedish multilingual urban contexts 53
8. Language acquisition in a multilingual society 71
9. Regional accent in the German language area. How dialectally do German police answer emergency calls? 83
10. Sustainable Linguicism 97
11. Phonetic variation in Tyneside 127
12. Production and judgment in childhood 143
13. Stereotypes and /n/ variation in Patra, Greece 153
14. Modelling linguistic change. The past and the present of the future in Brazilian Portuguese 169
15. The role of linguistic factors in the process of second dialect acquisition 201
16. Folk views on linguistic variation and identities in the Belarusian-Russian borderland 217
17. Polarisation revisited 233
18. Ethnicity as a source of changes in the London vowel system 249
19. Levelling, koineization and their implications for bidialectism 265
20. Subject index 277