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Dialect acquisition among Puerto Rican bilinguals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Shana Poplack
Shana Poplack*
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University of Pennsylvania
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Sociolinguistic studies over the past ten years have demonstrated time and again how linguistic behavior changes as a person's social position changes, and how language is thus an excellent indicator of social status and social change.

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Research Article
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Language in Society , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , April 1978 , pp. 89 - 103
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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