Discontinuity in a Life Cycle

The Death of Trinidad Bhojpuri

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2888935
AutoresPeggy Mohan, Paul Zador
Año1986
Volumen62
Número2
Páginas291
Fecha de publicación1986-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/414675
OpenAlexW2327589320
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas10

Do languages die gradually or abruptly? Spontaneous speech samples were elicited from 40 speakers of Trinidad Bhojpuri in rural Caroni, Trinidad, ranging in age from 95 to 26. The oldest 28 subjects were representative of their age group; the youngest 10 were distinctly unrepresentative. Data corpora were pro-rated to equal length, and the errors and test features in each corpus were counted to distinguish statistically between native and non-native competence. Speakers formed two internally age-independent competence clusters—with the 10 youngest speakers and one older speaker a group apart, signaling a discontinuity between native and post-native competence

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