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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      10 September 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511809873
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511809873
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      • Series:
      Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
      Subjects:
      Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
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    Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
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    Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
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    Most societies in today's world are multilingual. 'Language contact' occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each other. This book is an introduction to the subject, covering individual and societal multilingualism, the acquisition of two or more languages from birth, second language acquisition in adulthood, language change, linguistic typology, language processing and the structure of the language faculty. It explains the effects of multilingualism on society and language policy, as well as the consequences that long-term bilingualism within communities can have for the structure of languages. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and adult bilingualism, the book provides a clear analysis of such phenomena as language convergence, grammatical borrowing, and mixed languages.

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    'Matras does indeed succeed in his stated goal of bringing a much-needed emphasis on the individual bilingual speaker back to language contact theory.'

    Source: Journal of Sociolinguistics

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    • Frontmatter
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    • Contents
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    • List of figures
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    • Preface
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    • List of abbreviations
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    • 1 - Introduction
      pp 1-8
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    • 2 - An emerging multilingual repertoire
      pp 9-40
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    • 3 - Societal multilingualism
      pp 41-60
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    • 4 - Acquiring and maintaining a bilingual repertoire
      pp 61-100
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    • 5 - Crossing the boundaries: codeswitching in conversation
      pp 101-145
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    • 6 - The replication of linguistic ‘matter’
      pp 146-165
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    • 7 - Lexical borrowing
      pp 166-192
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    • 8 - Grammatical and phonological borrowing
      pp 193-233
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    • 9 - Converging structures: pattern replication
      pp 234-274
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    • 10 - Contact languages
      pp 275-307
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    • 11 - Outlook
      pp 308-315
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    • Notes
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    • References
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    • Author index
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    • Language index
      pp 355-361
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    • Subject index
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