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Amastae, Jon – Papers in Linguistics: International Journal of Human Communication, 1981
A method for analyzing acquisition-like patterns in the English consonants used by Spanish-English bilinguals is presented which allows a distinction to be made between individual and group phenomena. An analysis of a bilingual community in southern Texas shows that there is a continuum of use of the standard English consonants not occurring in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Consonants, English, Evaluation Methods

Amastae, Jon – Hispania, 1989
An assessment of the substantive progress made regarding the study of language contact and bilingualism in the Hispanic world explores research concerning language contact and grammars, the bilingual speech community and linguistic structure, and bilingual discourse. (45 references) (CB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Culture Contact, Discourse Analysis, Grammar