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Phonological Variation in Rural Jamaican Schools.
This book investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language variety in rural Jamaica. For sociolinguists and second language/dialect researchers interested in the acquisition and use of sociolinguistic variables, an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2012.
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| Colección: | Creole language library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language variety in rural Jamaica. For sociolinguists and second language/dialect researchers interested in the acquisition and use of sociolinguistic variables, an important challenge is how to efficiently account for language learning mechanisms and use. To date, this book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary look into phonological and phonetic variation observed in primary school in Jamaica, that is from the perspective of classic variationist and quan. |
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| Notas: | 6.4 Vowel duration contrasts in the teachers' data. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (307 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027274625 9027274622 1280879688 9781280879685 9786613720993 6613720992 |