Contents

pp v-vi

List of figures

pp vii-ix

List of tables

pp x-x

List of contributors

pp xi-xi

List of abbreviations

pp xii-xiv

Introduction. Analysing variation in English: what we know, what we don't, and why it matters

pp 1-4

Part I - Investigating variation in English: how do we know what we know?

pp 5-6

1 - Collecting data on phonology

pp 7-29

2 - How to make intuitions succeed: testing methods for analysing syntactic microvariation

pp 30-48

3 - Corpora: capturing language in use

pp 49-71

4 - Hypothesis generation

pp 72-92

5 - Quantifying relations between dialects

pp 93-120

6 - Perceptual dialectology

pp 121-148

Part II - Why does it matter? Variation and other fields

pp 149-150

7 - Variation and linguistic theory

pp 151-177

8 - Variation and change

pp 178-198

9 - Variation and forensic linguistics

pp 199-218

10 - Variation and identity

pp 219-236

11 - Variation and populations

pp 237-260

12 - Variation and education

pp 261-279

Notes

pp 280-283

References

pp 284-322

Index

pp 323-332