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Peer reviewedPoplack, Shana – Language in Society, 1978
Describes an investigation of the nature of English dialect acquisition among bilingual Puerto Ricans. Subjects were in the sixth grade of a school in the Puerto Rican community in North Philadelphia. Results show that subjects can socially classify linguistic variants from two competing systems and use them appropriately. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Dialect Studies
