Locating Language in Time and Space

a-prefixed forms acquired acquisition adjectives adverbial allophones analysis back vowels Black English Cedergren chain shift clusters Cobras consonant copula creole deletion rates diphthongization distinction effect environment example factor group Fasold favored Figure final t,d following grammatical front grammatical constraints historical indicate interviews Judy Kelly King of Prussia labials Labov language lax tense short learning linguistic change manner of articulation merger mid vowels monomorphemic morpheme nasals natural speech Northern City children nucleus number of tokens occurrences out-of-state participles percentage Philadelphia Philadelphia pattern Philadelphia short-a pattern phonetic variables phonological plural posttonic preceding preposition pretonic progressive present pronunciation Puerto Rican Puerto Rican Spanish quantitative raising Sankoff semantic simple present social sociolinguistic Soulan Soulatan sound change Spanish speakers stressed Table tion University unstressed utterances variable rule variation verbs Vowel Shift Wolfram word classes York City children