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Peer reviewedDorian, Nancy D. – Language, 1978
Simplification in structure and confluence between the local-language structure and the prestige-language structure are usually predicted in language death as in pidginization. For a dying Scottish Gaelic dialect, speakers were tested in the two most excessively complex morphological structures the dialect offers. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, English, Grammar
Peer reviewedSchilling-Estes, Natalie; Wolfram, Walt – Language, 1999
Comparison of the moribund dialects of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, and Smith Island, Maryland, demonstrates that valuable insight into the patterning of variation and change in language death can be obtained by investigating moribund varieties of healthy languages. Discusses comparative investigation of two kinds of linguistic decay:…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dialects
