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Peer reviewedPenalosa, Fernando – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1986
The hispanicization of Mayan immigrants in Los Angeles is explored, focusing on the patterns of usage of Mayan, Spanish, and English among men, women, and children, and the trend toward Spanish-English bilingualism. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Immigrants, Language Maintenance, Language Proficiency
Download full textGoodell, Melissa, Ed.; Choi, Dong-Ik, Ed. – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1996
This collection of papers by the graduate students and faculty in linguistics at the University of Kansas offers summaries of works in progress dealing with general linguistics and studies in Native American languages. General linguistics papers include: "Resetting Bounding Nodes in Acquiring Spanish" (Ramiro Cebreiros); "Syntax of…
Descriptors: American Indians, Cherokee, Higher Education, Japanese
Johnson, Dora E.; And Others – 1976
This is an annotated bibliography of basic tools of access for the study of the uncommonly taught languages of North, Central, and South America. It is one of eight fascicles which constitute a revision of "A Provisional Survey of Materials for the Study of the Neglected Languages" (CAL 1969). The emphasis is on materials for the adult…
Descriptors: Adult Education, American Indian Languages, Annotated Bibliographies, Cherokee
Fox, Barbara A., Ed.; Jurafsky, Dan, Ed.; Michaelis, Laura A., Ed. – 1999
Selected papers include: "From Core to Periphery: A Study on the Directionality of Syntactic Change in Japanese" (Kaoru Horie); "On the Extension of Body-Part Nouns to Object-Part Nouns and Spatial Adpositions" (Yo Matsumoto); "Noun Classes: Language Change and Learning" (Maria Polinsky, Dan Jackson);…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Bikol, Caregiver Speech, Child Language
Ostler, Nicholas, Ed. – 1999
The theme of the third annual Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) Conference was Endangered Languages and Education, focusing on how education can be used to promote, resist, and reverse the decline of a language. The conference papers are broken into several sections covering the topic from a variety of aspects and perspectives.…
Descriptors: African Languages, Afro Asiatic Languages, Baltic Languages, Bilingual Education
