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Publication details [#53479]

Lipski, John M. 2010. Depleted plural marking in two Afro-Hispanic dialects: Separating inheritance from innovation. Language Variation and Change 22 (1) : 105–148.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | L2-acquisition | markedness | plural | speech community

Language as a subject

Languages, African | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper discusses how a distinctive pattern of depleted plural marking is found in two isolated Afro-Hispanic dialect speech communities, where Spanish was originally learnt as a second language by speakers of African languages.