David W. Lightfoot is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Communication, Culture & Technology program at Georgetown University. He is also Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science.Jonathan Havenhill received his PhD in Theoretical Linguistics from Georgetown University in 2018. He is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong.

• ContentsIllustrationsPreface1. Re-thinking variable properties in language: IntroductionDavid W. Lightfoot and Jonathan Havenhill2. Contrastive feature hierarchies in phonology: Variation and universalityB. Elan Dresher3. Scope variation in contrastive hierarchies of morphosyntactic featuresElizabeth Cowper and Daniel Currie Hall4. Allophonic systems as a variable within individual speakersBetsy Sneller5. A label theoretic explanation of the resultative parameterDaniel Milway6. Adverbial -s: so awks but so natural!Norbert Corver7. The acquisition of English article alternations: Variation, competition, and the defaultMarjorie Pak8. Verb second word order in Norwegian heritage language: Syntax and pragmaticsMarit Westergaard and Terje Lohndal9. Acquisition of morphosyntax: A pattern learning approachHeidi Getz 10. How to be faithful to the input in a situation of language contactAlicia Avellana, Lucía Brandani, Hannah Forsythe, and Cristina Schmitt11. Variation and mental representationGregory Guy12. Variation and competing I-languages in creole genesis: A synchronic and diachronic viewMarlyse Baptista13. Transmission revisited Gillian Sankoff14. The value of small communities in a big data world: Investigating Smith Island English in real and apparent timeNatalie Schilling15. All zeros are not equal in African American EnglishLisa GreenContributorsIndex

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