The depicardization of the vernaculars of the Lille conurbation

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Contributors VII
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Levelling
6. Dialect contact and koinéization: the case of northern France 19
7. The depicardization of the vernaculars of the Lille conurbation 29
8. Jordanian and Palestinian dialects in contact: vowel raising in Amman 63
9. "Salience" as an explanatory factor in language change: evidence from dialect levelling in urban England 81
10. My Dad's auxiliaries 111
11. 2. Convergence
12. Mette a haout dauve la grippe des Angllaïs: convergence on the Island of Guernsey 143
13. Modern Greek: towards a standard language or a new diglossia? 169
14. Standard English and the lexicon: why so many different spellings? 181
15. Latin and Arabic evolutionary processes: some reflections 201
16. There's sheep and there's penguins: convergence, "drift" and "slant" in New Zealand and Falkland Island English 209
17. 3. Adaptive mechanisms
18. Convergence in the brain: the leakiness of bilinguals' sound systems 243
19. Language contact in early bilinguals: the special status of function words 267
20. 4. Code-copying
21. Contact-induced change in a code-copying framework 285
22. Karaim: a high-copying language 315
23. Author index 329
24. Subject index 335