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Wolfram, Walt; Schilling-Estes, Natalie – Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 1995
Discusses Ocracoke English as an endangered dialect, examining the social responsibility linguists and dialectologists should assume in documenting and disseminating information about the state of moribund dialects and describing a community-based, collaborative model involving the development of materials and programs that foster knowledge of and…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Language Variation