Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures ix
4. Tables xii
5. Preface and acknowledgements xiii
6. Terminology and notation conventions xiv
7. Phonetic notation xv
8. Part I: Questions and method
9. 1 Questions about language and variation, and where we got them 1
10. 2 The linguistic variable 13
11. 3 Discovering and describing patterns of variation and change 26
12. Part II: Variation and social relationships
13. Introduction to Part II 51
14. 4 Social patterns I: interspeaker variation 53
15. 5 Social patterns II: intraspeaker variation 90
16. 6 Meaning and social patterns 104
17. 7 Acquisition of variation 119
18. Part III: Variation, change, and linguistic structure
19. Introduction to Part III 129
20. 8 Structural patterns I: phonology and morphology 131
21. 9 Structural patterns II: syntax, lexical variables, and suprasegmentals 153
22. Part IV: Conclusions
23. 10 The life and times of linguistic changes 171
24. References 177
25. Index 189