Towards a Social Science of Language

1. Preface; 2. Foreword (by Kac, Michael B.); 3. I. The Social organization of variation and change; 4. Dialect typology: isolation, social network and phonological structure (by Trudgill, Peter); 5. Dialect and style in the speech of upper class Philadelphia (by Kroch, Anthony S.); 6. (ay) Goes to the city. Exploring the expressive use of variation (by Eckert, Penelope); 7. Social class and language variation in Bilingual speech communities (by Mougeon, Raymond); 8. "Why do women do this?" Sex and gender differences in speech (by Haeri, Niloofar); 9. Interactional conditioning of linguistic heterogeneity (by Paradis, Claude); 10. Peaks and glides in southern states short-a (by Feagin, Crawford); 11. Denasalization of the velar nasal in Tokyo Japanese: Observations in real time (by Hibiya, Junko); 12. II. The linguistic structure of variation and change; 13. Variation and drift: loss of agreement in germanic (by Ferguson, Charles A.); 14. Turning different at the turn of the century: 19th century Brazilian Portuguese (by Tarallo, Fernando); 15. From and function in linguistic variation (by Guy, Gregory R.); 16. The history of the ancient Hebrew modal system and Labov's rule of compensatory structural change (by Steiner, Richard C.); 17. Phonetic evidence for the evolution of lexical classes: The case of a Montreal French vowel shift (by Yaeger-Dror, Malcah); 18. Phonological rule set complexity in a very large vocabulary word recognition system (by Seitz, Philip Franz); 19. III. African-American varieties of English; 20. The origins of variations in Guyanese (by Bickerton, Derek); 21. The urbanization of creole phonology: variation and change in Jamaican (KYA) (by Patrick, Peter L.); 22. Copula variability in Jamaican creole and African American vernacular English: A reanalysis of DeCamp's texts (by Rickford, John R.); 23. Contraction and deletion in vernacular black English: Creole history relationship to Euro-American English (by Fasold, Ralph W.); 24. Dimensions of a theory of econolinguistics (by Baugh, John); 25. William Labov: a bibliography; 26. Index