Concepedia

Two Vernacular Features in the English of Four American-born Chinese

Amy Wing‐mei Wong

Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania) · 2007 · 24 citations · 9 references

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Concepts

Language StudiesEthnic StudiesLinguisticsDialectologyLinguistic AnthropologySociolinguisticsChinese StudiesEast Asian StudiesEthnolinguistic VariationMultilingualismChinese CharactersChinese DialectsChinese LinguisticsChinese PhonologyVernacular Names

Abstract

I would like to thank Rene Blake for suggesting I examine social networks, Greg Guy

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