- M.A.K. Halliday, “Learning How to Mean,” in Foundations of Language Development: A Multidisciplinary Approach, ed. Eric and Elizabeth Lenneberg (UNESCO and IBRO [International Brain Research Organization], 1973), and Learning How to Mean—Explorations in the Development of Language (London: Edward Arnold, 1975), p. 35.
- Walburga Von Raffler Engel, “The LAD, Our Underlying Unconscious, and More on ‘Felt Sets,’” Language Sciences (Dec., 1970), pp. 15–18, cites an example of the speech of two children having an American father and a French mother, settled in France. The children speak French to both parents, but with a distinct American English accent to the father and in Parisian French to the mother.
- Characteristics of language design are discussed at length in my “Aspects of Cognition, Propriety, and Compatibility in Language Activity: A Study of Hindi-Urdu Address and Reference System,” in Language and Plural Society, ed. Lachman M. Khubchandani (Simla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, forthcoming).
- See Lachman M. Khubchandani, “Language Policy for a Plural Society,” in Towards a Cultural Policy for India, ed. S. Saberwal (Simla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1974), pp. 97–111.
- One finds many instances of such heterogeneous speech communities in the Indian Census records. For details, see Lachman M. Khubchandani, “Mother Tongue in Multilingual Societies,” in Economic and Socio-cultural Dimensions of Regionalisation, A. Chandra Sekhar, gen. ed., Census Centenary Monograph No. 7 (New Delhi, 1972), and “Fluidity in Mother Tongue Identity,” in A. Verdoodt, ed., Applied Sociolinguistics, Vol. II, Proceedings of the 1972 Third International Congress of Applied Linguistics (Heidelberg: J. Groos Verlag, 1974), pp. 81–102.
- See Lachman M. Khubchandani, “Foreign Language Teaching: Instruction and Interaction Strategies,” in RELC Journal (Singapore), VI, No. 1 (1975), 1–5, and in Studies in Linguistics, Occasional Papers Series, I (Simla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study (1975)), pp. 81–87.
- See, for example, Halliday, Learning How To Mean, pp. 33–34.
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