Sociolinguistic Variation

Part I. Phonological Variation: 1. Freedom of movement: /-uw/-fronting in the Midwest; 2. The (ING) variable: patterns of variation in a fraternity; 3. Competing norms and selective assimilation: mixing outer banks and southern /oh/; 4. On the social basis of phonetic resistance: the shifting; Part II. Morphosyntactic Variation: 5. Null and expressed pronoun variation in Mexican-descent children; 6. Linguistic preference and prescriptive dictum: on the phonological and morphological justification of ain't; 7. Sorting out morphosyntactic variation in French; 8. Copula variability in the Belize continuum and the; 9. Accounting for variable word-final deletion within optimality theory; 10. Variation in negative inversion in AAVE: an optimality theoretic approach; 11. The problem of syntactic variation; Part III. Register and Style: 12. Compliments, compliment responses and politeness in an African-American community; 13. Discourse genre, type of situation and topic of conversation in relation to phonological variables in Puerto Rican Spanish; 14. Contact with media and linguistic; 15. Sociolinguistic factors in sign language research; 16. Intonation and register variation: the case of the English negative; Part IV. Discourse: 17. Engaging the reader: the changing use of connectives in newspaper discourse; 18. Social effects and interactional dynamics: their relative importance for a discourse procedure; 19. OK - a dynamic event in Montreal French; 20. Laughter as interaction strategy: discursive and phonetic strategies; 21. Whose story is this?: Point of view variation and group; 22. Variation in Narrative Structure; 23. A study on the use of reported speech in spoken language; Part V. Codeswitching: 24. Code switching in a bidialectal school; 25. A competence model of codeswitching; 26. Intrasentential codeswitching in diglossic settings and its; 27. Organizational principles behind codeswitching and interlanguage development in early adult second language acquisition; Part VI. Language change: 28. The linguistic consequences of catastrophic effects; 29. Social stratification, linguistic constraints and inherent .; 30. The spread of urban AAVE: a case study; 31. Constraints on the loss of case marking in English; 32. A trend study of a trendy change; 33. Substratal effects on the evolution of modals in East LA English.