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Introduction. Pluricentricity, language-internal variation and cognitive linguistics / Gitte Kristiansen -- Enregistering pluricentric German / Peter Auer -- Communicative and cognitive dimensions of pluricentric practices in French / Georges L�udi -- Linguistic pluricentrism as a neurological problem / �Angel L�opez-Garc�ia -- Lexical variation in aggregate perspective / Tom Ruette, Dirk Speelman, and Dirk Geeraerts -- Stable lexical marker analysis : a corpus-based identification of lexical variation / Dirk De Hertog, Kris Heylen, and Dirk Speelman -- The pluricentricity of Portuguese : a sociolectometrical approach to divergence between European and Brazilian Portuguese / Augusto Soares da Silva -- Global diffusion, regional attraction, local roots : sociocognitive perspectives on the pluricentricity of English / Edgar W. Schneider -- Phonetic distance and intelligibility in Dutch / Dirk Speelman, Leen Impe, and Dirk Geeraerts -- National variation of address in pluricentric languages : the examples of Swedish and German / Catrin Norrby and Heinz L. Kretzenbacher.

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