1. Variation in speech communities; 2. The exact description of a speech community: Short a in Philadelphia (by Labov, William); 3. Patterned symmetry of shifting and lengthened vowels in the Montreal French Vernacular (MFV) (by Yaeger-Dror, Malcah); 4. New results on Montreal French /r/ (by Tousignant, Cl.); 5. Is urban influence VARB-able? (by Pitts, Ann H.); 6. Montreal French: Language, class and ideology (by Sankoff, David); 7. Social determinants of the use of English in Sweden (by Ljung, H.); 8. Syntactic and morphological change; 9. Function and grammar in the history of English: Periphrastic do (by Kroch, Anthony S.); 10. The English gerund: Syntactic change and discourse function (by Houston, A.); 11. Morphological productivity word frequency, and the Oxford English Dictionary (by Anshen, F.); 12. Syntactic variation; 13. Syntactization in language development: Clause status variation (by Wald, B.); 14. Choosing between that and it (by Montgomery, Michael); 15. Inside and outside relative clauses: Pronominal redundancy in Portuguese (by Tarallo, Fernando); 16. Variation in language development; 17. Addressing new questions about Black children's language (by Stockman, Ida J.); 18. Structural variability in phonological development: Final nasals in Vernacular Black English (by Wolfram, Walt); 19. The development of syntactic complexity in narrative, informative and argumentative discourse (by Dubuisson, L.); 20. Controversies and methods in the study of linguistic variation; 21. Some problems in defining syntactic variables: The case of WH questions in Montreal French (by Lefebvre, Claire); 22. A closer look at some so-called variable processes (by Ford, Alan); 23. Some approaches to syntactic variation (by Jacobson, S.); 24. A versatile program for the analysis of sociolinguistic data (by Rousseau, P.); 25. The care and handling of a mega-corpus: The Ottawa-Hull French project (by Poplack, Shana)