Creole and dialect continua : standard acquisition processes in Belize and China (PRC) /

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Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research on standard language acquisition, little attention has been given to the mechanisms underlying second dialect acquisition. Using a combination of function-based grammar and sociolinguistic methodology to analyze topic marking strategies,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Escure, Geneviève
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1997.
Colección:Creole language library ; v. 18.
Temas:
Creole dialects.
Dialectology.
Language acquisition.
Sociolinguistics.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Pragmatics.
English language > Social aspects > Belize.
Chinese language > Social aspects.
Language Development
Dialectologie.
Langage > Acquisition.
Sociolinguistique.
Syntaxe.
Pragmatique.
Chinois (Langue) > Aspect social.
sociolinguistics.
pragmatics.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Creole Languages.
English language > Social aspects.
Belize.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research on standard language acquisition, little attention has been given to the mechanisms underlying second dialect acquisition. Using a combination of function-based grammar and sociolinguistic methodology to analyze topic marking strategies, the unguided acquisition of a standard by speakers of nonstandard varieties is examined in two distinct linguistic and geographical situations: in a Caribbean creole situation (Belize), with special attention to the acquisition of acrolects by native speakers of basilects, and in a noncreole situati.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 307 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027275868
9027275866
9781556191732
1556191731
ISSN:0920-9026 ;

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