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Hiberno-English: Pidgin, Creole, or Neither? CLCS Occasional Paper No. 49.
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Odlin, Terence – 1997
The process by which Irish-speaking regions became English-speaking regions over a period of centuries is examined. The first part argues that schooling played far less of a role in the shift than some scholars have suggested, because schools were not structured to be particularly effective in teaching the second language (English) to…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Educational History