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Lamy, Delano Sydney – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The present study is concerned with language contact between Creole English and Spanish spoken by bilingual West Indians who live in Panama City, Panama. The goal of this study is to examine the speech patterns of monolinguals of Creole English and Spanish and Spanish-Creole English bilinguals in the local communities of this region, by employing…
Descriptors: Creoles, Phonetics, Spanish, English
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Klee, Carol A. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
The role of language contact in linguistic change remains a polemic issue in the field of contact linguistics. Many researchers (Weinreich, 1953; Lefebvre, 1985; Prince, 1988; Silva-Corvalan, 1994; King, 2000; Sankoff, 2002; Labov, 2007) believe that there are limits on the types of linguistic patterns that can be transmitted across languages,…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Language Patterns