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Peer reviewedWolfram, Walt; And Others – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1997
Examines the nature of language diversity in the small, isolated community of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, where a lone African American family has resided for over 130 years. (57 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Blacks, Context Effect, Cultural Isolation
Peer reviewedMorales, Amparo – Hispania, 1997
Discusses the Puerto Rican dialect and its peculiar placement of subject pronouns. Notes the linguistic variety in the dialect as well as its use of verbs connotating mental and communicative activity and constructions of relativity. These distinctions give rise to the functional hypothesis to account for the peculiarities of Spanish in the…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Dialect Studies, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
