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The aim of this volume is to present an anthology to fill "a significant lacuna in linguistics": quantitative variationist sociolinguistic research of indigenous minority languages. The geographic coverage is broad (each populated continent is represented), as is the linguistic coverage (phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical variation and change all receive attention). Indeed, with twenty-one contributions, space does not allow for discussion of the individual chapters here, but the editors provide an overview of each contribution in their introduction.
The volume is in two parts: "Variation in phonetics and phonology" (thirteen contributions), and "Variation in syntax, morphology, and morphophonology" (eight contributions). The features discussed are thus diverse (e.g. monosyllabization in Eastern Cham; aspiration of plosives in Maori and consonant...