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Deuber, Dagmar; Leung, Glenda-Alicia – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
This paper addresses the issue of the emergence of new standards of English in the postcolonial world by means of a language attitude study conducted in the Caribbean island of Trinidad that involved rating the accents of newscasters. Accents represented in the clips played to respondents comprised various local as well as non-local ones. The…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Language Variation, Foreign Countries
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Loakes, Deborah; Moses, Karin; Wigglesworth, Gillian; Simpson, Jane; Billington, Rosey – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
Indigenous children growing up in the remote regions of Australia live in multilingual communities which are often undergoing rapid language shift. In these communities, children are exposed to a range of language input, including the traditional language of the area, a local creole and Standard Australian English. The extent to which the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Linguistic Input, Creoles, Standard Spoken Usage