Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Defining Salience -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Definite Article Reduction -- 5. Glottalisation in the South of England -- 6. Hiatus resolution in Hungarian -- 7. Derhoticisation in Glasgow -- 8. Salience and models of the lexicon -- 9. Salience and language change -- 10. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index