The quantitative analysis of linguistic variation

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents ix
3. Preface 1
4. I. Area Studies
5. The historical and cultural interpretation of dialect 13
6. An approach to linguistic geography 31
7. Area Lexicon 93
8. Some applications of mathematical and statistical models in dialect geography 107
9. Sociolinguistic dialectology 133
10. II. Community Studies
11. Adapting dialectology 167
12. Identifying and interpreting variables 193
13. The quantitative analysis of linguistic variation 223
14. III. Group Studies
15. Variation theory and language contact 251
16. A perspective on African-American English 287
17. Professional varieties 319
18. IV. Special Topics
19. Folk dialectology 333
20. The patterning of variation in performance 379
21. Appendix
22. Resources for research 433
23. Index 449