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Mufwene, Salikoko S. – 2001
This book explores the development of creoles and other new languages, highlighting conceptual and methodological issues for genetic linguistics and discussing the significance of ecologies that influence language evolution. It presents examples of changes in the structure, function, and vitality of languages, suggesting that similar ecologies…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, English
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Keils, R. M. – College Composition and Communication, 1973
Concludes that as long as there are critical minds in charge of dangerous elements having unfathomed properties, such as language and politics, there is little chance that the members of the human race will wholesale themselves into slavery. (Author/RB)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Dialects, Higher Education, Language Role
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Bodman, Nicholas C. – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1973
Revised and enlarged version of a paper given at the Fifth Sino-Tibetan Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1972, entitled "Old Chinese S- Clusters, Some Dialect Alternations and Traces of the Sino-Tibetan S- Causative." (DD)
Descriptors: Burmese, Chinese, Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language)
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Stevens, James H.; And Others – Language and Speech, 1973
Reports an investigation of the effect of dialect on speech discrimination scores of black and white adolescents. (TO)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Dialect Studies, Grade 10, Language Research
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Kinkade, M. Dale; Thompson, Laurence C. – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1974
Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on Salish Languages, Bellingham, Washington, August 1972; research supported by the National Science Foundation. (DD)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics
Yallop, Colin – Journal of the Australian College of Speech Therapists, 1972
Revised version of a paper presented to the Australian College of Speech Therapists, Sydney, Australia, May 27, 1972. (DD)
Descriptors: Australian Aboriginal Languages, Consonants, Dialect Studies, Distinctive Features (Language)
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Cassidy, Frederic G. – Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik, 1973
Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)
Descriptors: Atlases, Dictionaries, Distinctive Features (Language), Geographic Distribution
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Moulton, William G. – Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik, 1973
Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Dialects, Distinctive Features (Language), German
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Dorian, Nancy C. – Language, 1973
Research supported in part by a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. (RS)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case (Grammar), Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
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Mayers, Marvin K.; McNeilly, Miriam – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Charts, Comparative Analysis, Dialects
Sandig, Barbara – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1970
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, German, Language Patterns, Language Styles
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Chen, Matthew – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1973
Revised version of a paper delivered at the 5th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Language and Linguistic Studies, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 20-21, 1972. Assistance provided through a Summer Faculty Fellowship, University of California, San Diego, and the Phonology Laboratory at Berkeley (supported in part by a National Science…
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Dialects
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Cheng, Chin-Chuan – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1973
Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Language and Linguistic Studies, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 20-21, 1972. Work supported in part by the Research Board of the Graduate College and by the Center for Asian Studies, both at the University of Illinois. (VM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Computers, Dialects
Traugott, Elizabeth C. – Florida FL Reporter, 1972
Takes issue with some conclusions by J. L. Dillard in his article Principles in the History of American English--Paradox, Virginity, and Cafeteria,'' Florida FL Reporter (Spring/Fall 1970) p32-33, 46. Special issue on Black Dialect: Historical and Descriptive Issues'' edited by William A. Stewart. (RS)
Descriptors: African Languages, Black Dialects, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics
Sanchez, Rosaura – El Grito: A Journal of Contemporary Mexican-American Thought, 1972
Written in Spanish, this article discusses the linguistic condition of the Spanish language among the Mexican American population today. (NQ)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Classification, Language Patterns, Language Styles
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