Multilingual language use and television exposure and preferences: The case of BelizeFootnote¹

An earlier draft of this paper was presented to the Latin American Studies Association, Boston, October, 1986. The authors would like to thank Jun Kee, Stella Shields and Rosanne Hartman without whom this paper would not have been possible.

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