Linguistic Acculturation in Hopi

Abstract

0.1. The following text, recorded in the summer of 1961 from a bilingual Hopi woman from Shipawlavi, contains a large number of English stems as loan words utilized with Hopi morpheme suffixes. The informant, who is approximately fifty-six years old, has lived in Shipawlavi all her life except for a four year period in the 1920s when she was a student at the Sherman Institute, Riverside, California and for a period of three years during World War II when she lived in Winslow, Arizona and Barstow, California. Other texts recorded from the same informant in 1934 and 1938 show none of