Language Variation and Change

Volume V Extensions and Applications of Sociolinguistics: Part 21 Language acquisition 60 Hitting a moving target: acquisition of sound change in progress by Philadelphia children 61 Dialect acquisition 62 The social and linguistic in the acquisition of sociolinguistic norms: caregivers, children, and variation Part 22 Second language acquisition 63 The acquisition of community speech norms by Asian immigrants learning English as a second language: a preliminary study 64 Competing constraints on variation in the speech of adult Chinese learners of English 65 Factors affecting the production of Vietnamese tones: a study of American learners 66 An exploration of the range and frequency of occurrence of forms in potentially variable structures in second-language Spanish Part 23 Variation in sign languages 67 Black Southern signing 68 Phonological variation in American Sign Language: the case of 1 handshape 69 Phonological variation and change in Australian and New Zealand sign languages: the location variable Part 24 Applying sociolinguistics 70 Linguists as agents for social change 71 Operationalizing linguistic gratuity: from principle to practice 72 What is a reading error?