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Linguistics, 2019 The study of language contact addresses the dynamics and outcomes of multilingual interaction. Accordingly, it intersects with many branches of linguistics, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and psycholinguistics.
Patience Epps
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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2017 The aim of the present paper is to test the claim that contact simplifies language (cf. Kusters, 2008) by comparing the domain of relative clause formation in British English, a L1 variety, and Indian English, a L2 variety.
Tamaredo, Iván
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Language contact in Gibraltar English: A pilot study with ICE-GBR
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2017 The variety of English used in Gibraltar has been in contact with a number of European languages, such as Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Arabic (Moyer, 1998: 216; Suárez-Gómez, 2012: 1746), for more than 300 years.
Loureiro-Porto, Lucía +1 more
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Laryngeal stop systems in contact: connecting present-day acquisition findings and historical contact hypotheses [PDF]
, 2011 This article examines the linguistic forces at work in present-day second language and bilingual acquisition of laryngeal contrasts, and to what extent these can give us insight into the origin of laryngeal systems of Germanic voicing languages like ...
Simon, Ellen
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Modeling the Emergence of Contact Languages [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2015 Contact languages are born out of the non-trivial interaction of two (or more) parent languages. Nowadays, the enhanced possibility of mobility and communication allows for a strong mixing of languages and cultures, thus raising the issue of whether there are any pure languages or cultures that are unaffected by contact with others. As with bacteria or
TRIA, FRANCESCA +3 more
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Linguistik Online, 2023 The intensity of the language contact belongs to numerous sociodemographic variables that influence the language competence of preschool children. This study aimed to examine associations between 16 variables related to the language contact and German ...
Eugen Zaretsky, Benjamin P. Lange
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Detecting contact in language trees: a Bayesian phylogenetic model with horizontal transfer
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2022 Phylogenetic trees are a central tool for studying language evolution and have wide implications for understanding cultural evolution as a whole. For example, they have been the basis of studies on the evolution of musical instruments, religious beliefs ...
Nico Neureiter +6 more
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Automated methods for the investigation of language contact, with a focus on lexical borrowing
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2019 While language contact has so far been predominantly studied on the basis of detailed case studies, the emergence of methods for phylogenetic reconstruction and automated word comparison – as a result of the recent quantitative turn in historical ...
Johann-Mattis List
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The Composite Nature of Interlanguage as a Developing System [PDF]
, 2009 This paper explores the nature of interlanguage (IL) as a developing system with a focus on the abstract lexical structure underlying IL construction. The developing system of IL is assumed to be ‘composite’ in that in second language acquisition (SLA ...
Wei, Longxing
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Loss of Morphology in Alorese (Austronesian): Simplification in Adult Language Contact
Journal of Language Contact, 2019 This paper discusses historical and ongoing morphological simplification in Alorese, an Austronesian language spoken in eastern Indonesia. From comparative evidence, it is clear that Alorese lost almost all of its morphology over several hundred years as
F. Moro
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