Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Maps -- Vowel Charts -- 1 Colonial dialects as mixed dialects -- 2 Colonial lag and Southern Hemisphere evidence for nineteenth-century British English -- 3 New-dialect formation: Stage I - rudimentary levelling and interdialect development -- 4 Stage II - variability and apparent levelling in new-dialect formation -- 5 Stage III - determinism in new-dialect formation -- 6 Drift: parallel developments in the Southern Hemisphere Englishes -- 7 Determinism and social factors -- References -- Index