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Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Diagrams and Maps
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Language change and dialect contact
2.1 Perspectives on language variation and change
　　2.1.1 Variationist sociolinguistics
　　　2.1.1.1 Co-variation of linguistic and social variables...
　　　2.1.1.2 The implementation and actuation of sound change
　　　2.1.1.3 Change from above and from below
　　2.1.2 Linguistic anthropology
　　　2.1.2.1 Traditional structure-centered typological paradigm
　　　2.1.2.2 Event-centered interactional paradigm
　　　2.1.2.3 Current paradigm of linguistic anthropology
　　2.1.3 Sociology of language
　　2.1.4 Summary
2.2 Dialect contact
　　2.2.1 Preliminaries
　　　2.2.1.1 Social dialectology vs. traditional dialectology
　　　2.2.1.2 Social dialectology vs. contact linguistics
　　2.2.2 Contributing factors
　　　2.2.2.1 Problematic internal vs. external dichotomy
　　　2.2.2.2 Internal factors
　　　2.2.2.3 Extra-linguistic factors
　　　2.2.2.4 Language ideology
　　2.2.3 Outcomes and processes of dialect contact
　　　2.2.3.1 Outcomes of dialect contact: communal and individual
　　　2.2.3.2 Processes of dialect contact: from individual to community
　　2.2.4 Summary
Chapter 3 Characteristic sketches of TSD
3.1 A synopsis of dialect study in China and Tangshan.
3.2 Phonetic features
　　3.2.1 Initial consonants
　　3.2.2 Vowels
3.3 Lexicon
3.4 Tone
3.5 Tone sandhi
3.6 Summary
Chapter 4 The socio-demographic changes and the dialect　contact situations in Tangshan
4.1 The demographic expansion of Tangshan
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Chapter 5 Theoretical framework of dialect change
Chapter 6 Methodologies
Chapter 7 Contact induced changes in the dialects in Tangshan
Chapter 8 Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendices