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Lewis, Thomas D. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation presents the results of a tripartite exploration of English use by Latinxs in post-Katrina New Orleans, defined here as an ethnolinguistic repertoire that I call New Orleans Latinx English (NOLAE). The project considers how contemporary English use differs from that found in a pre-Katrina sample, how social network geometry…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Spanish, Language Variation, Vowels
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McClure, Erica F.; McClure, Malcolm – Anthropological Linguistics, 1977
The term ethnoreconstruction has been coined to refer to a strategy by which a speaker of one language or dialect attempts to speak a related language or dialect by systematically transforming the elements. The process is discussed with reference to several languages. (CHK)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, German, Interference (Language)