From Trilingual to Bilinguals? A Study of the Social and Linguistic...

Journal of Third World Studies;  October 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Social and Linguistic Consequences of Language Shift on a Group of Urban Luo Children in...relatively few studies focusing on language shift processes and the gradual disappearance...language practices encourage and encode language shift situations. To this end the study analyses...

Acculturation and communicative need in the process of language shift: the...

Southwest Journal of Linguistics;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......understand their influence in the process of language shift. Using a sociolinguistic approach...relationship to a steady pattern of Spanish language shift in the United States. Despite the on-goi...transmission of the mother tongue, and thus, a language shift from Spanish to English. ...

Blacks chain suitable for targeting -Cymuned.(News)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  April 25, 2006 ;     390 words ......in language planning. One of the most damaging aspects of language shift in Welsh-speaking communities is the enormous impact on...thing but propping up an unhealthy mindset that reversing language shift is a far away, governmental responsibility, and that no...

The role of heritage language in social interactions and relationships:...

Bilingual Research Journal;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......to maintain, many studies show that language shift to the dominant language of the country...Wong Fillmore (1991) has documented language shift to English in the United States. In...prevent English from replacing the HL, a language shift to the dominant language is evident...

Finikas Romika: A Greek Para-Romani variety

Romani Studies;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......mixed Romani dialects, mixed languages, language shift, selective replication, secret jargons...Para-Romani varieties are the result of a language shift by Rom communities towards the majority...Matras (1998, 2000, 2002) argues that language shift is followed by selective ...

Spanish language shift in Chicago.

Southwest Journal of Linguistics;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......levels of daily Spanish use point to a language shift to English. The factors that appear...between 1970 and 1984 found evidence of language shift from Spanish to English, particularly...evidence from the Southwest points to language shift to English. New York and Miami have...

Sprachverhalten und ethnische Identität: Sorbische Schüler an der...

Canadian Slavonic Papers;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......had a chance of escaping a massive language shift. This prediction is now supported by...other things, -atava concludes that language shift already occurred fifty years ago in...analytical-statistical investigation how to reverse language shift in the Lower Serbian/Upper Sorbian...

Iazyk russkogo zarubezh'ia: Obshchie protsessy i rechevye portrety

Canadian Slavonic Papers;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......time and for intergenerational loss, language shift or loss exhibited by successive generations...language attrition, loss of language, from language shift, the increasing interference of the...regard, separating out evidence of language shift. Zemskaia begins her discussion by...

Making a case for Tongan as an endangered language.(Dialogue )

The Contemporary Pacific;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......community. Tongan represents an instance of language shift as a result of globalization, wherein...languages, globalization, diaspora, language shift, language maintenance ********** At...as it affects language maintenance. LANGUAGE SHIFT AND ENDANGERED LANGUAGES There has...

Language maintenance among the children of immigrants: a comparison of...

Southwest Journal of Linguistics;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......to what impact these factors have on language shift. Thus, a major goal of the present...understand the impact of region on language shift. * INTRODUCTION. The impact of diatopia...arises as to what impact region has on language shift. That Spanish is lost in Hispano populations...

Writing Standard: Process of Macedonian Language Standardization

Canadian Slavonic Papers;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......early twentieth century, questions of language shift and standardization are addressed...institutions of social implementation of language shift, language planning, formal declarations...linguistic and meta-linguistic factors in language shift and the concomitant identity shift...

Linguistic minorities in multilingual settings

Bilingual Research Journal;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......such nations are language maintenance, bilingualism, or language shift, and these three processes become the framework for Paulston...when attempting to account for variation in the rate of language shift she shows the way in which standardized written Greek used...

Another short note on creoles in contact with non-lexifier prestige...

Lingua Americana;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......bilingualism is a manifestation of language shift. The creole/non-lexifier contact situations...EC communities by bilingualism and language shift (Snow 200Ob: 341-342). My aim is to...language contact and conflict with language shift at present under way from Islander...

COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REVISION:RUBEN G. RUMBAUT

Congressional Testimony;  May 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ......country of origin. Three recent studies of intergenerational language shift provide convergent and compelling contemporary evidence...also US-born). Despite group differences in the degree of language shift, for every nationality without exception the following patterns...

The role of Speech accommodation and crime type in attribution of guilt.

The Journal of Social Psychology;  August 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......social-psychological model purporting to explain the phenomenon of language shift. The theory consists of two propositions: (a) Social psychological...process can take diverse linguistic forms, ranging from actual language shift (e.g., French to English) to more subtle adjustments (e...