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Peer reviewedScotton, Carol Myers; Okeju, John – Language, 1973
Research supported by the Ford Foundation and the American Association of University Women. (DD)
Descriptors: African Languages, Cultural Influences, Dialect Studies, Idioms
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
