Contents: Svetlana Kaminskaïa/Jeff Tennant/Alexander Russell: Approaches to analyzing prosodic rhythm in language contact: French in Ontario - Miklós Kontra/Fruzsina S. Vargha: Are there speakers of the / / vs. /e/ dialect in Budapest? - Jenny Öqvist: Intonation in interaction: Heightened pitch peaks as an interactional resource in the traditional Stockholm dialect - Panayiotis A. Pappas/Meghan Jeffrey: Raising and shifting in BC English - Erik R. Thomas/Janneke Van Hofwegen: Consonantal variation in the English of a Spanish-substrate community - Jean Lewis Botouhely : La détermination dans le parler malgache du Nord - Ernestina Carrilho/Sandra Pereira: On the areal dimension of non-standard syntax: Evidence from a Portuguese dialect corpus - Simon Kasper: Attributional praxis and linguistic stability - Carmen L. LeBlanc : Les interrogatives totales en français madelinot : Continuité dans la filiation - Darcy Sperlich/Robert Sanders: Whither a Pan-Chinese grammar: Examining the usage and frequency of three syntactic constructions - Thomas Strobel: Pronominal partitivity in German dialects: Transitions and changes in progress - Laura Baxter/Jacqueline Peters: Black English in Toronto: A New Dialect? - Becky Childs/Gerard Van Herk: Superstars and Bit Players: Salience and the fate of local dialect features - Wladyslaw Cichocki: The PFC-Tracadie Corpus: A variety of Acadian French spoken in northeastern New Brunswick (Canada) - Paul Cooper: It takes a Yorkshireman to talk Yorkshire: Towards a framework for the historical study of enregisterment - Marjatta Palander: How do western Finns imitate eastern Finnish dialects? - Jeannot Fils Ranaivoson: Problèmes de la relance de la recherche sur la variation dialectale en malgache - Malcah Yaeger-Dror/Christopher Cieri: Prolegomenon for an analysis of dialect coding conventions for data sharing - Sandra Clarke: Adapting legacy regional language materials to an interactive online format: The Dialect Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador English - Rudolf de Jong: Northern Sinai: Identifying the transitional area between Bedouin and sedentary Arabic dialects using methods of multi-dimensional scaling - Daniel Long/Seiichi Nakai: Researching non-standard dialect usage in linguistic landscapes - Jamin Pelkey: Diagnostic dialectology: Interpreting Ngwi variation in China's Red River valley - Maria-Pilar Perea: Dialectal stratigraphy: Joining dynamic cartography and diachronic data - Joseph Roy: Sociolinguistic statistics: The intersection between statistical models, empirical data, and sociolinguistic theory - James N. Stanford: Methods in tone dialectology: A sociotonetic perspective - Alena Barysevich: Lexical variation in contact dynamics: Identity or social conditioning? - Chitsuko Fukushima: Revisiting regional variation on an island after thirty years - Fumio Inoue/Akemi Yamashita: Change in the use of beautifying o- and late adoption: A historical interpretation of data one decade apart - Anne Violin-Wigent: Does the scope of regionalisms affect their retention? A case study of three regional variants in Briançon - Suzanne Evans Wagner/Kali Bybel/Kathryn VerPlanck: Back and forth with classes and that kind of thing: A panel study of general extender use in Philadelphia.