Language change and variation

1. Variation in speech communities 2. The exact description of a speech community: Short a in Philadelphia (by Labov, William) 3. Patterned symmetry of shifting and lengthened vowels in the Montreal French Vernacular (MFV) (by Yaeger-Dror, Malcah) 4. New results on Montreal French /r/ (by Tousignant, Cl.) 5. Is urban influence VARB-able? (by Pitts, Ann H.) 6. Montreal French: Language, class and ideology (by Sankoff, David) 7. Social determinants of the use of English in Sweden (by Ljung, H.) 8. Syntactic and morphological change 9. Function and grammar in the history of English: Periphrastic do (by Kroch, Anthony S.) 10. The English gerund: Syntactic change and discourse function (by Houston, A.) 11. Morphological productivity word frequency, and the Oxford English Dictionary (by Anshen, F.) 12. Syntactic variation 13. Syntactization in language development: Clause status variation (by Wald, B.) 14. Choosing between that and it (by Montgomery, Michael) 15. Inside and outside relative clauses: Pronominal redundancy in Portuguese (by Tarallo, Fernando) 16. Variation in language development 17. Addressing new questions about Black children's language (by Stockman, Ida J.) 18. Structural variability in phonological development: Final nasals in Vernacular Black English (by Wolfram, Walt) 19. The development of syntactic complexity in narrative, informative and argumentative discourse (by Dubuisson, L.) 20. Controversies and methods in the study of linguistic variation 21. Some problems in defining syntactic variables: The case of WH questions in Montreal French (by Lefebvre, Claire) 22. A closer look at some so-called variable processes (by Ford, Alan) 23. Some approaches to syntactic variation (by Jacobson, S.) 24. A versatile program for the analysis of sociolinguistic data (by Rousseau, P.) 25. The care and handling of a mega-corpus: The Ottawa-Hull French project (by Poplack, Shana)