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De Granda, German – Boletin de la Real Academia Espanola, 1971
Descriptors: Creoles, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedHall, Roberta L. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1973
Revised version of a paper presented at the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Corvallis, Oregon, March 1970. (DD)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Immigrants, Language Patterns, Mutual Intelligibility
Peer reviewedKerswill, Paul – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1993
The applicability of the notion of "speech community" in urban centers where considerable dialect mixing takes place is discussed. Labov's model is examined and four speech community criteria are emphasized: nativeness of speech community members, uniform patterns of linguistic variation, shared evaluation of features, and close…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classification, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns
Hartman, James W. – Kansas Journal of Sociology, 1973
Descriptors: Anthropology, Dialect Studies, Environmental Influences, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedScotton, Carol Myers; Okeju, John – Language, 1973
Research supported by the Ford Foundation and the American Association of University Women. (DD)
Descriptors: African Languages, Cultural Influences, Dialect Studies, Idioms
Peer reviewedDoerr, Richard P. – Hispania, 1969
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Language Patterns, Lexicology, Regional Dialects
Download full textLe Page, R. B. – 1974
This paper is intended as an outline synthesis of what is presently known about the processes of pidginization and creolization. Section 1 deals with the linguistic processes of pidginization under the following headings: (1) the learned expectancies of how to behave in a contact situation, (2) necessity and heightened attention, (3) redundancy,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Creoles, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedCullen, Constance – English Quarterly, 1971
Article describes 1970 research project of Kinkora area. Discussed are English words used on Island and in P. E. I. and The Dictionary of Canadianisms. (AF)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, Language, Language Patterns
O'Neill, George Joseph, Jr. – 1972
This study traces the syntactic interference of the dialect of 176 black children (grades 1-6) living in south-central Los Angeles when they attempt to speak standard English in the school and correlates the amount of interference with certain socioeconomic variables. Syntactical interference items investigated include verb agreement, tense,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Elementary Education, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedWolfram, Walt – Language Learning, 1978
Discusses the applicability of the notion of structured variability in language to contrastive analysis. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns, Language Research
McDavid, Raven I., Jr.; O'Cain, Raymond K. – Kansas Journal of Sociology, 1973
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Geographic Distribution, Geographic Regions, Language Patterns
Hopper, Robert – Kansas Journal of Sociology, 1973
Descriptors: Black Community, Cultural Background, Dialect Studies, Elementary Education
Labov, William – 1972
Reported here is the work of two linguists, William Labov and Paul Cohen, and of two black researchers who know the culture of the inner city, Clarence Robins and John Lewis. Together they explore certain aspects of Black English vernacular (BEV) and certain political and cultural aspects of the black community. Part 1 (chapters 1-4) deals with…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Language Handicaps
Ross, John – Francais dans le Monde, 1976
Discusses the dilemma that language variation studies have caused concerning the choice of language variety to be used in language instruction, and outlines a taxinomic model for looking at language variation (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Dialect Studies, French, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedUnderwood, Gary N. – International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1974
Criticizes mainstream dialectology and linguistic atlases as outdated, and suggests a method for mapping the language of the Southwest. (CK)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, Interviews, Language Classification
