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Peer reviewedHidalgo, Margarita – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1987
Discusses the rise of Mexican Spanish as a distinct variety of Spanish and describes the regional and social dialects of contemporary Mexican Spanish. Although countless similarities exist between Mexican Spanish and the Chicano Spanish spoken in the southwestern United States, Mexican Spanish shows greater variability. (GR)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedJones, Mari C. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1998
Discusses the language situation in the region of Brittany in France, where the Breton language, a Celtic rather than Romance language, is dying out but a Breton ethnic identity is growing. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
