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Ecology of Language Acquisition

2003
Notes on the Authors. Acknowledgements. 1. Towards an ecology of language acquisition J. Leather, J. van Dam. 2. Critical realism, ecological psychology, and imagined communities: foundations for a naturalist theory of language acquisition M. Fettes. 3. A tale of two computer classrooms: the ecology of project-based learning L. van Lier. 4.
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The Ecology of Language

1994
Theecology of languageis a concept introduced to clarify the relationships that hold between the use of language by people and the contexts in which those uses take place. Developing an effectiveecologyrequires access to large amounts of textual and lexical data.
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The Ecology of Language Evolution.

American Anthropologist, 2003
The Ecology of Language Evolution. Salikoko S. Mufwene. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 255 pp.
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Changing the Language Ecology of Kadazandusun: The Role of the Kadazandusun Language Foundation

Current Issues in Language Planning, 2000
This article examines the role the Kadazandusun Language Foundation has played in changing the language ecology of the Kadazandusun language. Over the period of the last 15 years, the state of the Kadazandusun language has undergone major progression that includes the making of a trilingual Kadazan Dusun–Malay–English dictionary.
Rita Lasimbang, Trixie Kinajil
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The Ecology of Language Maintenance

Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1981
Three factors have been identified as affecting one's ability to maintain his/her minority mother-tongue in a metropolitan area: proportion the minority mother-tongue group forms of the total metropolitan population, its degree of residential segregation, and the absolute number of people in the minority mother-tongue group.
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Ecological implications of language contact

Paper in Linguistics, 1984
Abstract The application of an ecological viewpoint for the description of language‐contact areas are analyzed here with the argument that they are of more importance for the study of unstable situations where one or more of the languages are in danger of dying out rather than those areas where multil‐ingualism has been stabilized by political or other
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The Ecology of Language Revival

Current Issues in Language Planning, 2001
Language revival is a difficult undertaking, and so new frameworks for understanding and effecting it are always of interest. The adoption of an ecological viewpoint in linguistics has been one of these. Contemporary versions (or visions), however, are unlikely to prove substantial: they are not particularly innovative, nor are their foundations sturdy
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The birth of language ecology: interdisciplinary influences in Einar Haugen's “The ecology of language”

Language Sciences, 2015
Abstract Einar Haugen is generally regarded as the founding father of ‘language ecology’ or ‘ecology of language’. In his classic 1971 paper, he suggested that “[l]anguage ecology may be defined as the study of interactions between any given language and its environment”.
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The Ecology of Language Evolution

2001
This major 2001 work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for genetic linguistics. Written by an internationally renowned linguist, the book discusses the nature and significance of internal and external factors or 'ecologies' that bear on the evolution of a ...
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The Ecology of Language

The Modern Language Review, 1975
Martin Durrell, Einar Haugen
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