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Betancourt, Francisco – 1985
The three conditions given in the literature for the pervasiveness of linguistic insecurity (a speaker's attitude toward his or her own speech revealed in face to face interaction through the upward or downward shift of language forms) exist in the case of speakers of the Spanish vernacular of Puerto Rico. The conditions are: the rise of a middle…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Ethnic Groups, Grammatical Acceptability, Language Attitudes
