Dialects are constantly changing, and due to increased mobility in more recent years, European dialects have 'levelled', making it difficult to distinguish a na

The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect

Traditional dialects have been encroached upon by the increasing mobility of their speakers and by the onslaught of national languages in education and mass med

This volume explores the linguistic complexities and critical issues of the Midland dialect area of the USA, and contains a unique data-based set of investigati

This new introduction explores all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use.