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Peer reviewedYoussef, Valerie – World Englishes, 2001
Investigates the range of Creole and standard English tense-aspect markers used by men and women at two age levels in the Islands of Tobago in the Southern Caribbean. People aged 70 and over and people aged 16-21 were compared on critical social variables and interviews were designed to tap their full range of communicative competence. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Creoles
Peer reviewedTorres, Lourdes – World Englishes, 1989
Examines code mixing and borrowing across two generations of New York Puerto Ricans, and explores the possibility of existence of a lifecycle of language use in the community. (26 references) (Author/OD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language)
