Table of contents
The sociolinguistic city
9
Identity and mobility in linguistic change across the lifespan: The case of Swabian German
27
Urban/suburban contact as stylized social practice
61
Counterurbanisation, dialect contact and the levelling of non-salient traditional dialect variants: The case of the front short vowels in Eastern England
89
Language attitudes among mobile speakers: Evidence from Italian speakers living abroad
119
Urban-rural dimensions to variable -body/-one
: The case of Ontario, Canada
141
From an indicator to a marker: Urban dialect loss in Michigan
159
New and old social meanings in urban and rural Sweden: The changing indexicalities of damped /i/
179
Diminutives and their variation in spoken interaction in urban areas: The Austrian case
203
Areal microvariation in German-speaking urban areas (Ruhr Area, Berlin, and Vienna)
227
Testing models of diffusion of morphosyntactic innovations in Twitter data
253
Index
279