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Languages in a situation of contact, whether they are 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-Corvalán explores in depth the linguistic, cognitive, and social processes underlying language maintenance, as well as changes characteristic of language shift and loss, bringing together analytical techniques employed in sociolinguistics, functional syntax, and discourse analysis.

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The presentation of the material is very clear and well organized....This book is an important contribution not only to the study of the Spanish spoken in the United States, but also to studies of language contact, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and the sociology of the language, among other fields. --Anthropological Linguistics<br>

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