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1 The Variation Puzzle，
1 Lin uistic Variation without Social Weighting
2 High Levels of Socially Neutral Linguistic Variationin Three SocioeconomYically Undifferentiated Minority-Language Enclaves
3 Exposure to Standard-Language or Mainstream Normsand Deviations from Those NOfms 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 Encountefing Intra Community Variation
4.3 Age-Related Variation
4.3.1 Establishing an Age-and-Proficiency Continuum
5 Inter-Speaker and Intra-SpeakerVariation in the Gaelic-Speaking Communities
5.1 Examples of Inter-and Intra-Speaker Differences in the Use ofTwo Variables
5.2 The Evidence of Dialect Geography
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