An integrated multi-generational model for language maintenance and shift: The case of Spanish in the Southwest

Spanish in Context

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 26-42

  Villa, Daniel J ^a   Rivera Mills, Susana V ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact generation; Language loss and maintenance models; Linguistic generation; U.S. Southwest

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649816590     PISSN: 15710718     EISSN: 15710726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/sic.6.1.03vil     Document Type: Review

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