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A Variationist Account of Voice Onset Time among Bilingual West Indians in Panama
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Lamy, Delano Sydney – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The present study is concerned with language contact between Creole English and Spanish spoken by bilingual West Indians who live in Panama City, Panama. The goal of this study is to examine the speech patterns of monolinguals of Creole English and Spanish and Spanish-Creole English bilinguals in the local communities of this region, by employing…
Descriptors: Creoles, Phonetics, Spanish, English
The Social Life and Sound Patterns of Nanti Ways of Speaking
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Beier, Christine Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation explores the phenomenon of "ways of speaking" in the Nanti speech community of Montetoni, in southeastern Peruvian Amazonia, between 1999 and 2009. In the context of this study, a way of speaking is a socially meaningful, conventionalized sound pattern, manifest at the level of the utterance, that expresses the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Communication, Social Life, Linguistics