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Peer reviewedChambers, J. K. – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2002
Discusses three themes that involve linguistic situations that have their roots in the extreme mobility that has characterized societies since the late 1940's: social typology of immigrnat-based societies andinsular socities; acquisition of native phonology by immigrant offspring; interlopers as agents of linguistic change. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Demography, Dialects, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
