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Peer reviewedAlthoff, Daniel – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1994
Traces the history of Africans in Mexico and the Costa Chica and compares elements of the regional speech as described in a 1958 study with data collected on-site in 1991-1992. Findings indicate that the successful introduction of public education coupled with the ubiquity of the mass media have reduced or eliminated the more distinctively…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
