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Paul B. Garrett

Researcher at Temple University

Publications -  16
Citations -  1080

Paul B. Garrett is an academic researcher from Temple University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Creole language & English-based creole languages. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 15 publications receiving 1025 citations.

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LANGUAGE SOCIALIZATION: Reproduction and Continuity, Transformation and Change

TL;DR: In the two decades since its earliest formulation, the language socialization paradigm has proven coherent and flexible enough not merely to endure, but to adapt, to rise to these new theoretical and methodological challenges, and to grow.
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What a language is good for: Language socialization, language shift, and the persistence of code-specific genres in St. Lucia

TL;DR: In many bilingual and multilingual communities, certain communicative practices are code-specific in that they conventionally require, and are constituted in part through, the speaker's use of a particular code as mentioned in this paper.
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Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar: The Case of Haitian Creole

TL;DR: The case of Haitian Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar The Case of Haiti Creole as discussed by the authors, by Claire Lefebvre. 461 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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Contact languages as “endangered” languages: What is there to lose?

TL;DR: The fact that a large and steadily growing number of the world's languages are "endangered" has received increasing attention in recent years, in academic and professional forums as well as in the mass media.
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Language Socialization and the (re)Production of Bilingual Subjectivities

TL;DR: Language socialization is the human developmental process whereby a child or other novice acquires communicative competence (Hymes 1972), enabling him or her to interact meaningfully with others and otherwise participate in the social life of a given community as mentioned in this paper.