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Publication details [#41309]

Smalley, William A. 1985. Adaptive language strategies of the Hmong: From asian mountains to american ghettos. Language Sciences 7 (2) : 241–269.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acculturation | foreign language acquisition | language contact | language maintenance

Language as a subject

English | Lao

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This article tries to describe adaptive language strategies of the Hmong over several generations in Laos, acquiring spoken Lao, and through several years as refugees in the United States, acquiring English.