LVC Volume 10 Issue 2 Cover and Front Matter

VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2 1998

Editors David Sankoff Umversite de Montreal William Labov University of Pennsylvania Anthony Kroch University of Pennsylvania

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EDITORS DAVID SANKOFF WILLIAM LABOV ANTHONY KROCH Universite de Montreal University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania

EDITORIAL BOARD Henrietta Cedergren, Universite du Quebec Shana Poplack, University of Ottawa a Montreal Gillian Sankoff, University of Pennsylvania Gregory Guy, York University Deborah Schiffrin, Georgetown University Paul Hirschbuhler, University of Ottawa Gunnel Tottie, University of Zurich Barbara Horvath, University of Sydney Peter Trudgill, University of Lausanne Salikoko Mufwene, University of Chicago Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University Anthony Naro, Federal University, Rio de Janeiro

Editorial Assistant: Jane Warren

EDITORIAL POLICY Language Variation and Change is dedicated to the reflected in actual speech production and process- description and understanding of variability and ing (or writing) and as systematically analyzed us- change at the levels of the speaker/hearer and the ing quantitative methods. The interaction between speech community. The journal will concentrate on language and society falls within the focus of the the details of structure and process that have tradi- journal insofar as it is manifested in linguistic tionally constituted the discipline of linguistics, as structure.

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