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Siguan, Miguel – Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1976
A presentation of a rigorous method allowing an accurate description of collective bilingualism in any given population, including both the speaker's degree of language command and the patterns of linguistic behavior in each of the languages. [In Spanish] (NQ)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Componential Analysis, Data Collection, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedCravens, Thomas D.; Giannelli, Luciano – Language Variation and Change, 1995
Examines the social parameters of acceptance and spread of intervocalic spirantization of "/p/,/t/,/k/" in Tuscany to test the salience of gender and class. This sociolinguistic analysis of the interaction of three options provides a more precise understanding of the significance of gender and class as (co)-conditioners of variation and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Change Agents, Consonants, Data Collection
Peer reviewedHolmes, Janet; And Others – Applied Linguistics, 1993
Drawing on the results of sociolinguistic research in three ethnically different communities in Wellington, New Zealand, this paper explores and illustrates the process of language shift and language revival. Members of the Greek, Tongan, and Chinese communities were interviewed; and data were collected on their language proficiency, patterns of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Data Collection, Foreign Countries, Greek
