Peer Commentaries on "Borrowing and Shift-Induced Interference: Contrasting Patterns in French-Germanic Contact.".

Beeching, Kate; Poplack, Shana; Meechan, Marjory; Sebba, Mark; Singh, Rajendra; Stolz, Thomas; Thomason, Sarah Grey; Winford, Donald

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ERIC Number: EJ632752

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1999

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Peer Commentaries on "Borrowing and Shift-Induced Interference: Contrasting Patterns in French-Germanic Contact."

Beeching, Kate; Poplack, Shana; Meechan, Marjory; Sebba, Mark; Singh, Rajendra; Stolz, Thomas; Thomason, Sarah Grey; Winford, Donald

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, v2 n2 p81-97 Aug 1999

Seven peer commentaries are provided in response to a paper that tested hypotheses from a model for contact-induced language change as formulated in Thomason and Kaufman (1998) and Thomason (1998). The model correctly predicts asymmetries between mutual influences of Germanic and Romance varieties in Brussels, Belgium and Strasbourg, France, making it a very powerful tool for describing the language contact patterns in these cities. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, French, Language Patterns, Language Variation, Models, Second Language Learning

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Belgium; France

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