Language variation - European perspectives VII : Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), Malaga, June 2017

Intro
 Language Variation --
European Perspectives VII
 Editorial page
 Title page
 Copyright page
 Table of contents
 Preface
 Local committee
 Introduction
 Scope of the volume
 Overview of the chapters
 Chapter 1. Language hybridism: On the origin of interdialectal forms
 1. Introduction
 2. Theoretical aspects: The origin of interdialectal forms
 2.1 The neutrality hypothesis
 2.2 The imperfect learning hypothesis
 2.3 The interdialectal forms in Canarian Spanish
 3. Analysing interdialectal forms
 3.1 Linguistic variables
 3.2 Phonetic distance between vernacular and standard forms 3.3 Individual variation3.4 The role of attitudes
 4. Conclusions
 References
 Chapter 2. Of clocks, clouds and sound change
 1. Introduction
 2. The Neogrammarian legacy
 3. Formal theory: Generative phonology and Optimality Theory
 3.1 The life cycle of sound change
 3.2 Awareness
 4. Sociolinguistics
 4.1 Exceptionlessness versus lexical diffuseness in the sociolinguistic study of sound change
 5. Cognitivist approaches
 6. Towards an integrated theory
 References
 Chapter 3. Evaluations of foreign accent in a purist speech community: The case of Iceland
 1. Introduction 2. Evaluating an accent3. The language situation in Iceland
 4. Method
 4.1 Speakers
 4.2 Procedure
 4.3 Survey and data analysis
 5. Results
 5.1 Evaluations of personality traits
 5.2 Gender
 5.3 Age
 6. Discussion
 7. Conclusion
 References
 Chapter 4. C\'era i fascisti e i tedeschi: Instances of linguistic simplification in a corpus of Italiano popolare
 1. Introduction
 2. On italiano popolare
 3. Linguistic simplification in italiano popolare
 4. Research questions and methodology
 5. Analysis
 5.1 New features
 5.2 Case study: Existential constructions
 6. Conclusions
 Abbreviations AcknowledgmentsReferences
 Chapter 5. Language change caught in the act: A case study of Frisian relative pronouns
 1. Introduction
 2. Omrop Fryslân
 3. Frisian in the Netherlands
 4. Relative pronouns
 5. Method
 5.1 The data
 5.2 Procedure
 5.3 Analysis
 6. Results
 7. Discussion
 8. Conclusion
 References
 Chapter 6. Virtual sociolinguistics: From real-time surveying to virtual-time archival sources for tracing change longitudinally
 1. Introduction
 2. Trend study with radio archive sources
 3. Panel study with historical corpora of written correspondence
 4. Conclusion
 References Chapter 7. ASPA Tools or how to measure foreign-accentedness and intelligibility in an objective manner1. Introduction
 2. Existent dialectometric tools
 3. English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and the Lingua Franca Core (LFC)
 4. Prototype Theory applied to (foreign) accents
 5. Technical characteristics of ASPA Tools
 5.1 Input/Output data
 5.2 Algorithms
 6. Conclusions and future perspectives
 References
 Chapter 8. Vowel harmony patterns in Greek dialectal child speech
 1. Introduction
 2. Aims and method of the present study
 3. The data
 4. Discussion
 5. Conclusions
 References