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Peer reviewedMarkey, T. L. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
Provides a linguistically valid definition of minority language, as well as language expansion, contraction, and death. The definitional model presented features the establishment of a continuum which also is shown to have predictive power, yielding an effective operational definition of majority/minority status and predicting new data. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Creoles, Ethnic Groups, Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance
