Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Plenaries
5. Analytic and synthetic 3
6. A case for clustering speakers and linguistic variables 23
7. Dynamics, variation and the brain 47
8. Individual chapters
9. Aggregate analysis of lexical variation in Galician 71
10. Inter-individual variation among young children growing up in a bidialectal community 85
11. The unruly dialect variant [a] 99
12. Vowel raising and vowel deletion as sociolinguistic variables in Northern Greek 113
13. Between local and standard varieties 125
14. Syntactic doubling and variation 141
15. Variation in style 157
16. A corpus-based study of concessive conjunctions in three L1-varieties of English 173
17. Variation in the structure of conjunctions in Luxembourgish German in the 19th century 185
18. Geolinguistic documentation of multilingual areas 199
19. Variation in Croatian 215
20. Index 233