Michelle C. Braña-Straw

List of John Benjamins publications for which Michelle C. Braña-Straw plays a role.

Articles

Braña-Straw, Michelle C. 2011 Putting individuals back in contact: Accommodation strategies by Barbadians in Ipswich Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to individual agency, Hinrichs, Lars and Joseph T. Farquharson (eds.), pp. 57–78 | Article

Researchers have commented that linguistic complexity and the level of social integration can constrain adults’ ability to acquire phonological changes (Chambers 1992; Kerswill 1996; Evans 2004). This preliminary study explores the extent to which first generation Barbadian immigrants acquire… read more

Braña-Straw, Michelle C. 2008 Review of Hinrichs (2006): Codeswitching on the Web: English and Jamaican Creole in E-mail Communication English World-Wide 29:2, pp. 217–221 | Review

Braña-Straw, Michelle C. 2007 1. Maintenance or assimilation? Phonological variation and change in the realization of /t / by British Barbadians Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages, Huber, Magnus and Viveka Velupillai (eds.), pp. 3–22 | Article