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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
