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Publication details [#54951]

Bunin Benor, Sarah. 2011. Mensch, bentsh, and balagan: Variation in the American Jewish linguistic repertoire. Language & Communication 31 (2) : 141–154.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Based on a large-scale survey, this study on variation in the American Jewish linguistic repertory, argues that this speech ought to be explored not as a separate ethnolect or language variety, but as English with a repertory of distinctive linguistic characteristics emanating from Yiddish, Hebrew, Aramaic, and other sources.