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Garcia, Ricardo L. – English Journal, 1974
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns
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Nadkarni, Mangesh V. – Language, 1975
The syntax of the relative clause in the Saraswat Brahmin dialect of Konkani, an Indo-Aryan language, has been Dravidianized because of the impact of the Dravidian Kannada language, operating through bilingual speakers. The Konkani-Kannada bilingual situation is described and an explanatory account of the syntactic change is given. (Author/CLK)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dravidian Languages
Perkowski, Jan Louis – 1969
Kashubian, which is considered a dialect of Polish by some linguists and a separate Slavic language by others, is spoken in a small area along the Baltic coast of northern Poland. The present study, an attempt to help fill the gap in the investigation of Slavic languages in the United States, deals primarily with the speech of a Minnesota-born…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Dialect Studies, Distinctive Features (Language), Immigrants
Pfaff, Carol W. – 1975
This paper reports on a preliminary quantitative study of syntactic constraints on code-switching within discourses in which no change in participants, setting or topic is evident. The goals of the study are to provide a syntactic description of the points at which switches from Spanish to English and English to Spanish are possible and to assess…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Dialect Studies
Gilbert, Glenn G. – 1970
This paper deals with three problems encountered in the areal study of "colonial" and "immigrant" languages (used in Haugen's sense) and examines how data presented in tabular or map form can assist in their solution. They are: (1) the mechanisms by which the speakers of various dialects of a single language--dialects which…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Deep Structure, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies
Gesner, Edward – 1986
A bibliography of 430 books, journal articles, papers, and other references on Acadian French written in English or French is divided into two principal sections: an annotated bibliography of works focusing on the Acadian French dialect spoken in the Canadian Maritime Provinces, and an unannotated bibliography pertaining to Louisiana Acadian…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingualism, Dialect Studies, Ethnology
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Lipski, John M. – Hispania, 1989
An overview of contemporary Hispanic dialectology, focusing on phonological phenomena, syntax, classification schemes, and bilingual communities, demonstrates that dialectology has long ceased to be the collection of innumerable surface deviations. It is suggested that dialectology is a theoretical discipline searching for universal principles to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Dialect Studies, Hispanic American Culture, Language Classification
Sole, Yolanda R. – 1976
Foreign language teaching methodology is confronted with the problem of teaching Spanish to English-dominant native Spanish speakers. Linguistic documentation is lacking to accurately evaluate the linguistic competence of the bilingual student, documentation also useful in the preparation of adequate instructional materials. This paper describes…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, College Students