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Publication details [#30643]

Schwartz, Richard G. and Cecilia Davidson. 1995. Semantic boundaries in the Lexicon: Examples from Jamaican Patois. Linguistics and Education 7 (1) : 47–64.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | meaning | psycholinguistics | standard1 vs. dialect2

Language as a subject

English, British | English, Jamaican

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0898-5898

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study explores bilingualism in the phonologically and semantically similar Jamaican Patois and Standard English, to gain insight into the semantic lexicon. Findings suggest modification of the compound and coordinate categorization model of the bilingual lexicon.