English use among older bilingual immigrants in linguistically concentrated neighborhoods: Social proficiency and internal speech as intracultural variation

Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 157-179

  Schrauf, Robert W ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

English proficiency; Intracultural variation; Older immigrants; Puerto Ricans

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PUERTO RICO; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; AGED; COMMUNICATION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; PUERTO RICO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67349113970     PISSN: 01693816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10823-009-9091-0     Document Type: Article

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