Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Language hybridism 9
6. Chapter 2. Of clocks, clouds and sound change 27
7. Chapter 3. Evaluations of foreign accent in a purist speech community 53
8. Chapter 4. C’era i fascisti e i tedeschi 71
9. Chapter 5. Language change caught in the act 85
10. Chapter 6. Virtual sociolinguistics 103
11. Chapter 7. ASPA Tools or how to measure foreign-accentedness and intelligibility in an objective manner 119
12. Chapter 8. Vowel harmony patterns in Greek dialectal child speech 133
13. Chapter 9. Tracking change in social meaning 145
14. Chapter 10. Slit-t in Dublin English 159
15. Chapter 11. Panel and trend studies 175
16. Chapter 12. Quotative variation in Bernese Swiss German 191
17. Chapter 13. Dialect levelling or shift 203
18. Chapter 14. Complementing in another language 217
19. Chapter 15. The past perfect in Cypriot Greek 231
20. Index 245