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Spanish Pro-Drop Meets the Bilingual Speaker.
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Lipski, John M. – 1989
A study of the language use of 45 transitional Spanish-English bilinguals focused on subject pronoun usage patterns evolving when the bilingual has acquired both a prodrop (Spanish) and a non-prodrop (English) language and frequently switches between them. Subjects were of Mexican, Cuban, and Puerto Rican background, and had not attained the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Diachronic Linguistics, English (Second Language), Hispanic Americans