Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Symbols and abbreviations -- Part I. Models -- Chapter 1. A sociolinguistic model and three hypotheses -- Chapter 2. The phonological model -- Part II. Setting, methods and linguistic variables -- Chapter 3. The research area -- Chapter 4. Methodological aspects -- Chapter 5. The linguistic variables -- Part III. Findings. The broader approach -- Chapter 6. Quantitative analyses for each single linguistic variable -- Chapter 7. Dialect levelling and structural dependence between linguistic variables -- Part IV. The deeper approach -- Chapter 8. Selection and analysis of the linguistic variables in the spontaneous data -- Chapter 9. Findings for the in-group conversations -- Chapter 10. Findings for the out-group conversations -- Chapter 11. Dialect levelling and accommodation: testing the third hypothesis -- Part V. Sizing up and looking ahead -- Chapter 12. Discussion and some issues for further research -- Appendix -- References -- Subject index