The Role of Transfer in Language Variation and Change: Evidence from Contact Varieties of French

Autor/inn/en	Treffers-Daller, Jeanine; Mougeon, Raymond
Titel	The Role of Transfer in Language Variation and Change: Evidence from Contact Varieties of French
Quelle	In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 8 (2005) 2, S.93-98 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1366-7289
DOI	10.1017/S1366728905002191
Schlagwörter	Language Variation; Interference (Language); French; Bilingualism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachenvielfalt; Französisch; Bilingualismus
Abstract	In this Special Issue, the focus is on contact-induced language variation and change in situations of societal bilingualism that involve long-term contact between French and another language. As is well known, when two or more languages are spoken by groups of speakers in the same geographical area, over time, features from one language can be transferred to the other language, especially when the languages in question are unequal in terms of prestige, institutional support and demographic factors. The process that leads to the adoption of such features in the contact languages is generally known as "Interference" or "Transfer," and these terms are also used to describe the features in question (i.e. the end product of the process of transfer). In this issue we prefer to use the term "Transfer" over the use of the notion "Interference," as the former has fewer negative connotations than the latter. (Author).
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