Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages

1. Introduction; 2. The lure of a distant horizon: Variation in indigenous minority languages (by Stanford, James N.); 3. Part I. Variation in phonetics and phonology; 4. 1. The phonetic and phonological effects of obsolescence in Northern Paiute (by Babel, Molly); 5. 2. Diglossia and monosyllabization in Eastern Cham: A sociolinguistic study (by Brunelle, Marc); 6. 3. Affricates in Lleidata: A sociophonetic case study (by Carrera-Sabate, Josefina); 7. 4. Sociolinguistic stratification and new dialect formation in a Canadian aboriginal community: Not so different after all? (by Clarke, Sandra); 8. 5. The changing sound of the Maori language (by Harlow, Ray); 9. 6. Toward a study of language variation and change in Jonaz Chichimeco (by Lastra, Yolanda); 10. 7. A sociolinguistic sketch of vowel shifts in Kaqchikel: ATR-RTR parameters and redundancy markedness of syllabic nuclei in an Eastern Mayan language (by Leonard, Jean Leo); 11. 8. Phonological features of attrition: The shift from Catalan to Spanish in Alicante (by Montoya-Abat, Brauli); 12. 9. Sociophonetic variation in urban Ewe (by Noglo, Kossi); 13. 10. Phonological variation in a Peruvian Quechua speech community (by Pasquale, Michael); 14. 11. A tale of two diphthongs in an indigenous minority language: Yami of Taiwan (by Rau, D. Victoria); 15. 12. Phonological markedness, regional identity, and sex in Mayan: The fricativization of intervocalic /l/ (by Romero, Sergio); 16. 13. The pronunciation of /r/ in Frisian: A comparative study with Dutch and Town Frisian (by Bezooijen, Renee van); 17. Part II. Variation in syntax, morphology, and morphophonology; 18. 14. Language shift among the Mansi (by Biro, Bernadett); 19. 15. Fine-grained morphophonological variation in Scottish Gaelic: Evidence from the Linguistic Survey of Scotland (by Bosch, Anna); 20. 16. Animacy in Bislama? Using quantitative methods to evaluate transfer of a substrate feature (by Meyerhoff, Miriam); 21. 17. The challenges of less commonly studied languages: Writing a sociogrammar of Faetar (by Nagy, Naomi); 22. 18. Language variation and change in a North Australian indigenous community (by O'Shannessy, Carmel); 23. 19. Ethnicity, bilingualism and variable clitic marking in Bishnupriya Manipuri (by Satyanath, Shobha); 24. 20. Clan as a sociolinguistic variable: Three approaches to Sui clans (by Stanford, James N.); 25. 21. Language loss in spatial semantics: Dene Suline (by Thiering, Martin); 26. Index