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Voegelin, C. F.; Voegelin, F. M. – 1976
This volume consists of a classification of the world's languages. The book is organized alphabetically in terms of classes. Within each class, the title of each entry is the name of a group of related languages. On the whole, the groups of languages discussed in an entry represent genetic units or purported genetic units. The internal…
Descriptors: African Languages, Afro Asiatic Languages, American Indian Languages, Australian Aboriginal Languages
Download full textSmith, Kenneth; And Others – 1977
The urban, ethnically Hawaiian child typically experiences great difficulty in learning to read English. In order to determine whether phonological confusion is a source of dialectical interference, the Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP) Phone Discrimination Test (KPDT) was developed for the one hundred twelve students in the KEEP school…
Descriptors: Creoles, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Diglossia
Language Choices: Conditions, Constraints, and Consequences. Impact Studies in Language and Society.
Putz, Martin, Ed. – 1997
The collection of essays on language contact and language conflict includes: "Language Choices: Contact and Conflict?" (Martin Putz); "Language Ecology: Contact Without Conflict" (Peter Muhlhausler); "Towards a Dynamic View of Multilingualism" (Ulrike Jessner); "A Matter of Choice" (Florian Coulmas); The…
Descriptors: Arabic, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Creoles
Day, Richard R. – 1976
This is a report of the results of an investigation of a test of plurality and past tense in standard English (SE). This research replicated Gleason's 1957-58 study in Boston. The subjects were 27 speakers of Hawaiian Creole English (HCE) in a kindergarten class in Honolulu. The results showed that the children produced very few SE plural and past…
Descriptors: Creoles, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Dialect Studies
Gallimore, Ronald; Tharp, Roland G. – 1976
This report presents a summary of the linguistic research conducted at the Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP) during its first five years of operation, as well as a description of relevant linguistic theories. The subjects of the research are the students in the KEEP elementary school (K-3) who were tested twice a year during the five-year…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Child Language, Creoles, Cultural Influences
Baker, Colin; Jones, Sylvia Prys – 1998
This encyclopedia is designed to promote bilingualism in a comprehensive and comprehensive manner and to be academically sound while remaining accessible to as wide an audience as possible. Each topic is presented in a clear, understandable style. Four sections focus on the following: (1) "Individual Bilingualism" (e.g., bilingualism and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Learning, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
Schneider, Edgar W., Ed. – 1996
Essays on varieties of English in the United States include: "Research Trends in the Study of American English" (Edgar W. Schneider); "Piney Woods Southern" (Lee Pederson); "Foundations of American English" (William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.); "The Comparability of Linguistic Atlas Records: The Case of LANCS an…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), College Students
