Language Diversity and Language Debt: Approaching QuantCrit with Caribbean English and Spanish-English Heritage Bilinguals.
Recent research on bilingualism has called for increasing engagement with the complexity and nuance of bilingual experience. Historically grounded in colonial comparisons to a monolingual ideal, the quantitative, empirical study of bilingualism is beginning to problematize this ideal and expand our...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Multilingual Theories & Practices Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 74 - 100 |
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University of Toronto Press
Jun2026
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