Sociolinguistics in Wales

Part 1. Introduction

1. An Overview of Sociolinguistics in Wales
Mercedes Durham, Jonathan Morris

Part 2. Welsh

2. Age Variation and Language Change in Welsh: Auxiliary Deletion and Possessive Constructions
Peredur Davies

3. Behavioural Economics and Minority Language e-Services—The Case of Welsh
Jeremy Evas, Daniel Cunliffe

4. A Standard for Language? Policy, Territory, and Constitutionality in a Devolving Wales
Patrick Carlin, Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost

Part 3. Welsh English

5. Variation and Change in the Grammar of Welsh English
Heli Paulasto

6. The Perceptual Dialectology of Wales from the Border
Chris Montgomery

7. Changing Attitudes Towards the Welsh English Accent: A View from Twitter
Mercedes Durham

Part 4. Bilingual and Multilingual Contact in Wales

8. ‘Mae pobl monolingual yn minority’: Factors Favouring the Production of Code Switching by Welsh–English Bilingual Speakers
Margaret Deuchar, Kevin Donnelly, Caroline Piercy

9. The Role of Linguistic Background on Sound Variation in Welsh and Welsh English
Jonathan Morris, Robert Mayr, Ineke Mennen

10. ‘I Heard Lots of Different Languages’: Layered Worlds of Separate and Flexible Bilingualism in Cardiff
Frances Rock, Amal Hallak

Keywords: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Policy and Planning, Language Change, Phonology, Discourse Analysis, Syntax