Mandarin,whichisaffectingthepho nologiesofbothofthesedisparateminoritylanguages.Weuseasocialcon structionistapproachtomodelthesechanges:the“Structure”ofalanguageis dialecticallyconstructedbyindividualmomentsofspeech—“Events”— whichareinturnin uencedbyStructure.Fromthisperspective,eachindi vidualuse...