Frontmatter -- Editor's Introduction -- Contents -- Master List Of Abbreviations -- PART ONE: MAJOR LANGUAGES OF NORTH AMERICA -- English -- The English Language in the United States -- The English Language in Canada -- Dialect Studies, Regional and Social -- Approaches to Phonology -- Approaches to Grammar -- Approaches to Lexicography and Semantics -- General Educational Aims of Native Language Teaching and Learning -- Linguistics and the Teaching of Reading and Spelling -- Linguistics and Literature -- English as a Second Language -- French -- Le français en Amérique du Nord: Problèmes et réalisations -- Histoire du français en Amérique du Nord -- French Dialect Geography in North America -- Bibliographie -- Spanish -- Spanish in North America -- PART TWO: OTHER IMMIGRANT LANGUAGES OF NORTH AMERICA -- Bilingualism, Language Contact, and Immigrant Languages in the United States: A Research Report 1956-1970 -- Immigrant Languages, Language Contact, and Bilingualism in Canada -- PART THREE: NATIVE LANGUAGES OF NORTH AMERICA -- General Chapters -- History of American Indian Linguistics -- American Indian Linguistic Prehistory -- North American Indian Language Contact -- Philological Approaches to the Study of North American Indian Languages : Documents and Documentation