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Preserving "The Best" and "Typical" Isleno Spanish.
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Coles, Felice Anne – 1995
Language attrition research usually attempts to elicit all types of usage from speakers of all fluency levels in a dying language in order to abstract changing linguistic patterns from situational variation. Informants adept at hiding their vernacular and improvising in an obsolescing variety are reluctant to admit to such scrutiny. In a…
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