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Introduction to Cognitive and Cultural Factors in Linguistic Change -- Cross-Dialectal Comprehension. Natural Misunderstandings -- A Controlled Experiment on Vowel Identification -- The Gating Experiments -- The Life History of Linguistic Change. Triggering Events -- Governing Principles -- Forks in the Road -- Divergence -- Driving Forces -- Yankee Cultural Imperialism and the Northern Cities Shift -- Social Evaluation of the Northern Cities Shift -- Endpoints -- The Unit of Linguistic Change. Words Floating on the Surface of Sound Change -- The Binding Force in Segmental Phonology -- Transmission and Diffusion. The Diffusion of Language from Place to Place -- The Diffusion of Language from Group to Group.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language in society (Oxford, England) ; 39