Front matter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction / Farrar, Kimberley / Jones, Mari C. -- 1. Levelling -- Dialect contact and koinéization: the case of northern France / Hornsby, David -- The depicardization of the vernaculars of the Lille conurbation / Pooley, Tim -- Jordanian and Palestinian dialects in contact: vowel raising in Amman / Al-Wer, Enam -- "Salience" as an explanatory factor in language change: evidence from dialect levelling in urban England / Kerswill, Paul / Williams, Ann -- My Dad's auxiliaries / Esch, Edith -- 2. Convergence -- Mette a haout dauve la grippe des Angllaïs: convergence on the Island of Guernsey / Jones, Mari C. -- Modern Greek: towards a standard language or a new diglossia? / Holton, David -- Standard English and the lexicon: why so many different spellings? / Wright, Laura -- Latin and Arabic evolutionary processes: some reflections / Cremona, Joseph -- There's sheep and there's penguins: convergence, "drift" and "slant" in New Zealand and Falkland Island English / Britain, David / Sudbury, Andrea -- 3. Adaptive mechanisms -- Convergence in the brain: the leakiness of bilinguals' sound systems / Watson, Ian -- Language contact in early bilinguals: the special status of function words / Deuchar, Margaret / Vihman, Marilyn May -- 4. Code-copying -- Contact-induced change in a code-copying |