Martin J. Ball is Professor of Speech Language Pathology at Linkoeping University, Sweden. He is co-editor of the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics (Taylor & Francis), and the book series Communication Disorders Across Languages (Multilingual Matters). His main research interests include sociolinguistics, clinical phonetics and phonology, and the Celtic languages.
PREFACE
PART I: LINGUISTIC VARIATION AND WELSH
I. Martin J. Ball: Introduction
2. Martin J. Ball: Accounting for Linguistic Variation: Dialectology
3. Martin J. Ball: Accounting for Linguistic Variation: Sociolinguistics
PART ll: VARIATION AND LEVELS OF LANGUAGE
4. Alan R. Thomas: Studying Lexical Geography
5. Martin J. Ball: The Study of Pronunciation Patterns
6. Martin J. Ball: Variation in Grammar
7 Martin J. Ball: Variation in the Use of lnitial Consonant Mutations
PART Ill: STUDIES OF THE USE OF WELSH
8. Sian Elizabeth Thomas: A Study of Calediad in the Upper Swansea Valley
9. Glyn E. Jones: Some Features of The Welsh of Breconshire
10. Anna E. Robens: Age-Related Variation in The Welsh Dialect of Pwllheli
PART IV: NON-GEOGRAPHICAL VARIETIES OF WELSH
11. Dafydd Glyn Jones: Literary Welsh
12. Berwyn Prys Jones: Official Welsh
13. Martin J. Ball, Tweli Griffiths, Glyn E. Jones: Broadcast Welsh
14. Cennard Davies: Cymraeg Byw
PART V: CHILDREN'S USE OF WELSH
15. Wynford BellinL The Development of Pronunciation
16. Glyn E. Jones: The Pronouns of Address in Welsh
17. Lynfa Hatton: The Development of the Nasal Mutation in the Speech of Schoolchildren
18. Sian Munro: Phonological Disorders in Welsh-Speaking Children
PART VI: THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS
19. Robert Owen Jones: Language Variation and Social Stratification: Linguistic Change in Progress
20. Martin J. Ball: Variation in Mutation - Where do the Variable Rules Go?