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  • LAN volume 71 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 71 / Issue 1 / March 1995
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    19 February 2026, pp. b1-b18
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  • J Milton Cowan

  • Charles F. Hockett
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 71 / Issue 2 / June 1995
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    19 February 2026, pp. 341-348
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  • Response to Goodman

  • Sarah Jülianne Roberts
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    Language / Volume 75 / Issue 2 / June 1999
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    19 February 2026, pp. 349-351

  • Morris Goodman brings into focus an error which is of minor consequence to my article (correcting it alters neither my analysis nor the article's theoretical importance) but has significance in assessing Goodman's contribution to the debate on creole origins. My error was in linking Goodman too closely to an explicit model that was fully developed by John Holm (1986, 1988, 1989, 1992).

  • Alternative Models of Dialect Death: Dissipation vs. Concentration

  • Natalie Schilling-Estes, Walt Wolfram
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    Language / Volume 75 / Issue 3 / September 1999
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    19 February 2026, pp. 486-521

  • The comparison of the moribund dialects of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, and Smith Island, Maryland, demonstrates that valuable insight into the patterning of variation and change in language death can be obtained by investigating moribund varieties of healthy languages. In addition, it is crucial to investigate not only cases of death by linguistic decay (dissipation), but also cases of death by population attrition in which linguistic distinctiveness is maintained or heightened among fewer speakers (concentration). The comparative investigation of both types of language death lends insight into the macrolevel socioeconomic and microlevel sociopsychological factors that lead to the maintenance or demise of moribund languages and language varieties, as well as the nature of change in language death. It is demonstrated that change in both concentrating and dissipating varieties is rapid but otherwise indistinct from change in healthy varieties and that unusual patterns of variation and change can be explained by appealing to the social significance of language features.

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