Proceedings of Methods XIII

Contents: David Britain: Foreword - R. Anthony Lodge: Reallocation and codification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Paris - Jean Feuillet : Attraction du germanique sur le roman, abandon de l'enclise et naissance du français - Maria F. García-Bermejo Giner: Towards a history of English literary dialects and dialect literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: the Salamanca corpus - Michèle Oliviéri: From dialectology to diachrony: evidence from lexical and morphosyntactic reconstruction in Romance dialects - Javier Ruano-García: I'll tell o how Gilbert Scott sowd is mere Berry: 'A Lancashire Tale' as a source for Lancashire speech in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century - Katie Wales: Northern English transported: the nineteenth-century goldrushes and the formation of a diaspora? - Sheila Embleton/Dorin Uritescu/Eric S. Wheeler: Identifying dialect regions: specific features vs. overall measures using the Romanian Online Dialect Atlas and multidimensional scaling - Dmitri Evmenov/Mehmet Muslimov: Atlas of Ingrian Finnish dialects: making the most of our data - Nicolas Mazziotta : Choix technologiques pour l'informatisation de l'Atlas Linguistique de la Wallonie - Janne Bondi Johannessen/Øystein Alexande Vangsnes/Signe Laake/Arne Martinus Lindstad/Tor Anders Åfarli: The Nordic dialect corpus and database: methodological challenges in collecting data - Chryssoula Karantzi: The research centre for Modern Greek dialects and the Historical Dictionary of the Greek Language - Rob Penhallurick: The dialect dictionary: what is it good for? - Maria-Pilar Perea: Retrieving the sound: applying speech synthesis to dialectal data - Christoph Praxmarer: Dialect relations in the English Dialect Dictionary - Charlotte Gooskens/Vincent J. van Heuven/Renée van Bezooijen/Jos Pacilly: Is Danish an intrinsically more difficult language to understand than Swedish? - Angela Kluge: RTT retelling method: an alternative approach to interdialectal comprehension

The Editors: Barry Heselwood is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Phonetics & Linguistics at the University of Leeds, where he teaches articulatory and instrumental phonetics.
Clive Upton, a specialist in English dialectology, is Professor of English Language in the School of English, University of Leeds, and pronunciation advisor to the OED.