Table of Contents

1. List of Tables; 2. List of Figures; 3. List of Maps; 4. Acknowledgments; 5. Introduction; 6. The Urban Speech Community of Kingston, Jamaica; 7. Field Methods and Data Analysis; 8. Phonolexical Variation: Palatal Glides; 9. Phonological Variation: Consonant Cluster Simplification; 10. Creole Pre-Verbal Past-Markers; 11. Past-Marking by Verb Inflection; 12. Social Variation in the Veeton Speech Community; 13. References; 14. Index of Language Varieties; 15. Index of Subjects