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Peer reviewedLe Page, R. B. – Language in Society, 1972
Survey supported by the Social Science Research Council in London, the Ford Foundation, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, and the Universities of York and Strasbourg. (VM)
Descriptors: Behavior, Community Surveys, Language Patterns, Language Research
Peer reviewedNemer, Julie F. – Language in Society, 1987
Many personal names in Temne (a Mel language spoken in Sierra Leone) are borrowed from other languages, containing foreign sounds and sequences which are unpronounceable for Temne speakers when they appear in other words. These exceptions are treated as instances of phonological stereotyping (cases remaining resistant to assimilation processes).…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Code Switching (Language), Developing Nations, Diachronic Linguistics
