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Peer reviewedCarreira, Marie – Bilingual Research Journal, 2000
Derisive attitudes towards Spanish in the United States threaten its survival. Four issues vital to the preservation of Spanish in the United States are examined: the arbitrary nature of linguistic prejudice, the linguistic validity of all dialects, the overwhelming linguistic overlap between nonstandard and standard dialects of Spanish, and the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Hispanic Americans, Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance
