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Direct linkDenis, Derek – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
"Bucktee" is one of several lexical items associated with 'Toronto Slang' -- the emically-given name for an enregistered set of lexical items associated with Multicultural Toronto English (MTE), a multiethnolect spoken by young people in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), originating in the many and varied multicultural and multilingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Afro Asiatic Languages, Dialects, North American English
Kamper, Heidrun – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
Rather than originating in the post-1945 period, the Americanisation of the German language represents the post-war transformation of a gradual anglicisation of German which began in the 18th century with the expansion of English industry and trade. The influence of American English on German began after World War I, and intensified under the…
Descriptors: War, Foreign Countries, German, North American English
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
This paper develops a scalar or quantitative measure of the "distance" between English and a myriad of other (non-native American) languages. This measure is based on the difficulty Americans have learning other languages. The linguistic distance measure is then used in an analysis of the determinants of English language proficiency…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Minorities, Second Languages, Foreign Countries
