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Peer reviewedSeymour, Richard K. – Word, 1970
Research supported by the Princeton University Council on Research, the Duke University Research Council, the Duke Endowment Fellowship Fund, and the Penrose Fund of the American Philosophical Society. (DD)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, German, Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages)
Blackshire-Belay, Carol – 1990
Foreign Workers' German (FWG) refers to the acquired German language skills of workers from various countries who were recruited to West Germany between 1955 and 1973 to fill menial, undesirable jobs. Contact between these workers and native German speakers was limited because of the nature of the foreigners' work, the tendency toward residential…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedBarbour, Stephen – Language in Society, 1987
Examination of the West German language and society suggests that the notion that the West German indigenous working class is separated from the middle class by a linguistic barrier is invalid. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Dialects, Foreign Countries, German, Language Patterns
