On the Inter-Relatedness of Minority Languages: A Position Paper

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Contributors IX
5. Foreign Language as a Means of Introduction to the Study of Minority Group Cultures in the United States 1
6. Some Cultural Implications of a Mexican American Border Dialect of American English 9
7. Desiderata in New Mexican Spanish Research 17
8. A Lexical Compilation of Rio Grande Valley Spanish: Aspects of Applied Research Techniques in Cross-Cultural Survey Investigation in the United States 23
9. The Southwest Spanish Lexicon 35
10. Lexical Usage of, and Attitude toward, Southwest Spanish in the Ysleta, Texas Area 43
11. Social Factors and Language 55
12. Acquisition of English Syntax by Mexican Americans: Grades 1—6 63
13. Some Research Problems in Southwestern Spanish Grammar 73
14. The Phonology of Mexican-American Spanish 85
15. Literature and Writing for American Indian Students 101
16. Communication Patterns in the English of Black Students in the Southwest and Elsewhere 109
17. Elicitation Techniques for Research on Child Bilinguals 111
18. Origin and Present-Day Location of German Speakers in Texas 119
19. On the Inter-Relatedness of Minority Languages: A Position Paper 131
20. Index 137