Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Variation and sociolinguistics
5. The sociophonetic orientation of the language learner 17
6. French liaison and the lexical repository 31
7. Part II. Sources and functions of sociophonetic variation
8. Derhoticisation in Scottish English 59
9. Where and what is (t, d)? 97
10. New parameters for the sociophonetic indexes 137
11. Sound archives and linguistic variation 169
12. Part III. What is (and what is not) a sociophonetic change
13. Ejectives in English and German 189
14. Author Index 205
15. Subject Index 209