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Analysing Variation in English.
Brings together a range of perspectives on the collection, analysis and broader relevance of variable language data.
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction. Analysing variation in English: what we know, what we don't, and why it matters; Part I Investigating variation in English: how do we know what we know?; 2 How to make intuitions succeed:; 3 Corpora: capturing language in use; 4 Hypothesis generation; 5 Quantifying relations between dialects; 6 Perceptual dialectology; Part II Why does it matter? Variation and other fields; 8 Variation and change; 9 Variation and forensic linguistics; 10 Variation and identity.