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Retracing the first seven years of bilingual and metalinguistic development through the comments of bilingual child, Michael Clyne; Tough movement and its analogs in Germanic languages, Bernard Comrie; Mother tongue - for better or worse? Florian Coulmas; A convergence-resistant feature in an convergence-prone setting - the east Sutherland gaelic vocative case, Nancy C. Dorian; Contributions from the acquisition of Polish phonology and morphology to theoretical linguistics, Wolfgang U. Dresler, Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk; The struggle to maintain Croatian dialects in the U.S., Rudolf Filipovic; Predictors and criteria in multisite census survey research - from Einar Haugen to today, Joshua A. Fishman; Progressive periphrases, markedness and second language data, Anna Giacalone Ramat; Managing intergroup communication - lifespan issues and consequences, Howard Giles, Jake Harwood; Frontier Norwegian in south Dakota - the situated poetics of Halvor O. Aune, Dell Hymes; Verbal prefixation in the Ugric languages from a typological-areal perspective, Ferenc Kiefer; Cross-linguistic comparison of prosodic patterns in Finnish, Finland Swedish, Stockholm Swedish, Ilse Lehiste; Exploring the social constraints on language change, Lesley Milroy; Alternatives to the sonority hierarchy for explaining segmental sequential constraints, John J. Ohala, Haruko Kawasaki-Fukumori; Pragmatic and semiotic agreement, behaviourment-switching and communicative awareness - on concepts of the analysis of bilingual behaviour, Els Oksaar; Notes on the dwarfs in Germanic tradition, Edgar C. Polome; Family values - the evidence from folk linguistics, Dennis R. Preston, Nancy Niedzielski; The British heresy in ESL revisited, Suzanne Romaine; Politics and language change - the sociolinguistic reflexes of the division of a Palestinian village, Bernard Spolsky, Muhammad Amara; On mechanisms of interference, Sarah G. Thomason; Atlantiker in nord-westeuropa - Pitken und Vanen, Theo Vennemann; A lone loanword and its implications, Werner Winter.
