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Lee, Nala H. – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2018
This paper provides an up-to-date report on the vitality or endangerment status of contact languages around the world, including pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages. By utilizing information featured in the "Endangered Languages Project" and the "Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Languages" online portals, 96 contact languages are…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Resource Materials
Bruzzese, Giannia – 1977
A detailed analysis of an Italian-American woman's speech is presented, and her interlanguage patterns are discussed in relation to a pidginization hypothesis. Data are presented on the following speech characteristics of the woman: free speech negatives, interrogatives, and present and past tense constructions. Her language is shown to be…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, English (Second Language)