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1 The Variation Puzzle, 3
1 Linguistic Variation without Social Weighting
2 High Levels of Socially Neutral Linguistic Variation
in Three Socioeconomically Undifferentiated
Minority-Language Enclaves
3 Exposure to Standard-Language or Mainstream Norms
and Deviations from Those Norms in English
and in Gaelic
3.1 English and Its Dialect Forms
3.2 Vernacular Gaelic and Formal Gaelic
3.3 Local Speech Features in the East Sutherland Fisherfolk Context
4 Initial Encounters with Variability
4.1 Encountering the Language
4.2 Encountering Intra-Community Variation
4.3 Age-Related Variation
4.3.1 Establishing an Age-and-Proficiency Continuum
5 Inter-Speaker and Intra-Speaker Variation
in the Gaelic-Speaking Communities
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