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It is only reasonable that a book about the principles of linguistic change should begin by asking how important these principles might prove to be-should we succeed in defining them-for the general understanding of language.
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job suitability scale, stable sociolinguistic variables, significant age coefficients, adstratum effects, negative age coefficients, upgliding vowels, partial regression lines, hushing quality, sociolinguistic sample, advanced dialects, coronal onsets, curvilinear principle, ingliding vowels, second highest status group, vigorous changes, stigmatized variables, communication indices, unnormalized data, secondary ethnicity, motivated projection, gender coefficients, most advanced speakers, adolescent peak, subjective reaction test, stylistic stratification
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New York City, South Philadelphia, Nancy Drive, Philadelphia Neighborhood Study, King of Prussia, African American, Wicket Street, Carol Meyers, Clark Street, United States, Age Figure, North America, Southern Shift, Coefficient Prob, Panama City, World War, Milton Keynes, Anne Bower, Mallow Street, Martha's Vineyard, Lower East Side, Pitt Street, Belten High, Kate Corcoran, New England
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