Language shift ecologies in the Americas

Vallejos-Yopán, Rosa; Bittar, Josefina

doi:10.1075/lab.22061.val

Commentary published In: Epistemological issue: The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1] 2023
► pp. 117–121

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Commentary

Language shift ecologies in the Americas

Rosa Vallejos-Yopán | University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Josefina Bittar | University of California, Santa Cruz

Published online: 2 February 2023

https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.22061.val

Article outline

Participant-researcher rapport
Instruments
Typology of speakers
Baseline
References

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