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Poplack, 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
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Rickford, John R. – Language in Society, 1987
Supports a greater use of repeated recordings and elicited intuitions by sociolinguists in assessing the linguistic competence of individuals or groups. A replication of an earlier implicational analysis of pronominal variation in the Guyanese creole continuum shows that, with repeated sampling and the inclusion of elicited intuitions, the…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Creoles, Dialect Studies, Discourse Analysis