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Dialect Acquisition.
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Chambers, J. K. – Language, 1992
Eight general principles are postulated by which immigrants adapt dialectologically to their new surroundings, based mainly on results of a developmental study of six Canadian youngsters in two families who moved to southern England, with supporting evidence from several other studies. (52 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Language Acquisition, Language Usage
Identity and Language Variation in a Rural Community.
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Hazen, Kirk – Language, 2002
Investigates an external variable critical to the understanding of sociolinguistic variation in a rural, tri-ethnic community in the Southern United States. Cultural identity is postulated as a speaker's orientation to the local and larger regional cultures, and in Warren County, North Carolina, this orientation correlates strongly with vernacular…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Regional Dialects, Rural Areas, Second Language Instruction