Learning to listen: Confronting two meanings of language loss in the contemporary white mountain apache speech community

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 269-288

  Nevins, M Eleanor ^a  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language ideology; Language loss; Language maintenance; Language socialization; Western apache

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646128187     PISSN: 10551360     EISSN: 15481395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/jlin.2004.14.2.269     Document Type: Article

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