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Language diversity and linguistic identity in Brittany : a critical analysis of the changing practice of Breton [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Education.This thesis explores the ways in which linguistic diversity is represented, articulated and theorised in the context of the promotion of Breton, a minority or lesser-used language spoken in the ...

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The Breton Language : from Taboo to Recognition.

open access: yes, 2000
International audienceIn 1993, while doing a study among students from the public high-school of Landerneau (Finistère) on individual and family practice of the Breton language, the author observed the following reactions.
Le Coadic, Ronan
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'Lesser-used' languages in historic Europe : models of change from the 16th to the 19th centuries

open access: yes, 2003
This article charts and tries to explain the changing use of ‘minority’ languages in Europe between the end of the Middle Ages and the 19th century.
Houston, Robert Allan
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Breton in contemporary media. Speakers, language, community

open access: yes
This monograph investigates questions around new speakers of Breton, their identities, attitudes, and motivations, and how these intersect with linguistic practices.
Davies-Deacon, Merryn; id_orcid
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Finding a place for Breton in 21st-century French society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
textRecent census data have shown that the number of Breton speakers in Lower Brittany has continued to drop despite revitalization efforts. A problem minority languages face is struggling to maintain a place in the lives of the people who have ...
Moen, Jennifer Lee
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ARBRES Kenstur: a Breton-French Parallel Corpus Rooted in Field Linguistics

open access: yes
International audienceARBRES is an ongoing project of open science implemented as a platform (“wikigrammar”) documenting both the Breton language itself and the state of research and engineering work in linguistics and NLP.
Grobol, Loïc, Jouitteau, Mélanie
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Institutional Work of Regional Language Movements: Options for Intervention at the Regional Level Taken Brittany as an Example

open access: yes, 2014
According to the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, the Breton language is severely endangered. While there were over 1 million Breton speakers around 1950, only 194,500 remained in 2007.
Lesk, Susanne
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A practice-based approach to the documentation of a heritage language: speakers profiles and varieties of Breton

open access: yes, 2023
International audienceThis chapter develops a practice-based approach of the documentation of an endangered language in a bilingual environment. I present the different axes of documentation of the different profiles of speakers, and the methodology of ...
Jouitteau, Mélanie
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Language Skills and Economic Returns

open access: yes
This article focuses on the contributions from the emerging positivist epistemological approach, endorsed by the economics of language and the economics of education, to study the returns to language skills, assuming that language competencies constitute
Garrouste, Christelle
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Children Prefer Natives; A study on the transmission of a heritage language; Standard Breton, Neo-Breton and traditional dialects

open access: yes, 2018
International audienceI present a linguistic effect by which heritage language speakers over-represent traditional input in their acquisition system.
Jouitteau, Mélanie
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