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acoustic analysis Arawak languages argue argument bilingual Birner borrowing Cambridge clause clusters code-switching consonant constraint constructions context contrast copula corpus correlation crosslinguistic deixis demonstrative subject dialect diffusion discourse discussion English epenthesis epistemic equative evidence example F-marked Fleischhacker foci focus-sensitive frequency functional Ghazvin grammar infixation Inland North instantiation ISBN issue John Benjamins Labov language contact language family learners lexical linguistic marked markedness monophthongs morphology nasals Northern Cities Shift noun nuclear accent obstruent Orleans pairs papers pattern perception phoneme inventory phonetic phonological pitch accent pragmatic predicted present prosodic prothesis Quechua reduplication reference salient semantic semantic focus sentence short-a system similar SO-focus social sociolinguistic sonority Spanish speakers speech split splittability stress structure syllable syntactic syntax Tagalog Taglish Tariana tense th-clefts theory tion Trudgill Tucanoan TWBX typological University Press variable variation verb vowel words