The Dialect Laboratory

The dialect laboratory: Introductory remarks
Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler

The evolutionary-emergence model of language change
Douglas S. Bigham

Dialect data, lexical frequency and the usage-based approach
Lynn Clark

Dialect areas and linguistic change: Pronominal paradigms in Ibero-Romance dialects from a cross-linguistic and social typology perspective
Inés Fernández-Ordóñez

The role of implicational universals in language change: Evidence from Tunisian Arabic dialects
Maik Gibson

On the genesis of the German recipient passive - Two competing hypotheses in the light of current dialect data
Alexandra N. Lenz

Paths to tone in the Tamang branch of Tibeto-Burman (Nepal)
Martine Mazaudon

Dialect choice in Fiji: A variationist approach to language change in the South Pacific
Karen Park

When diachrony meets synchrony.: Phonological change, phonological variation and Optimal Paradigms
Claudia Pons-Moll

Geolinguistic data and the past tense debate: Linguistic and extralinguistic aspects of Dutch verb regularization
Rik Vosters

Tense and aspect systems of Western and Eastern dialects in Japan: Split paths of diachronic development
Kazuha Watanabe

The rise of DP-internal possessors: On the relationship of dialectal synchrony to diachrony
Helmut Weiß

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