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Peer reviewedSchneider, Edgar W. – Language, 2003
Discussing World Englishes, outlines a basic developmental scentrio, and suggests that speech communities typically undergo five consecutive phases in this process--foundation, exonormative stabilization, nativization, endonormative stabilization, and differentiation. Describes the sociolinguistic characteristics of each one. The framework is…
Descriptors: Dialects, Foreign Countries, Language Variation, Sociolinguistics
Peer reviewedChambers, J. K. – Language, 1992
Eight general principles are postulated by which immigrants adapt dialectologically to their new surroundings, based mainly on results of a developmental study of six Canadian youngsters in two families who moved to southern England, with supporting evidence from several other studies. (52 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Language Acquisition, Language Usage
