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Language Contact and Change: Spanish in Los Angeles

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Languages in a situation of contact, whether receding or being maintained by their speakers, are characterized by constant and rapid change. Thus, they provide a testing ground for hypotheses about processes of linguistic change. In this original study of an intergenerational sample of Spanish-English bilinguals in Los Angeles County, Carmen Silva-Corval???n explores in depth the linguistic, cognitive, and social processes underlying language maintenance, as well as changes characteristic of language shift and loss, ...

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Language Contact and Change: Spanish in Los Angeles 1996, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198236443

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