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Peer reviewedBankston, Carl L.; Henry, Jacques M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1998
This study considers the relationship between Cajun ethnicity and the intergenerational transmission of the French language. The commonsensical assumption of a positive relationship between ethnic identity and language transmission is questioned. It is suggested that if an ethnicity is associated with socioeconomic disadvantages, then the greater…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Cultural Background, Ethnicity, French
