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Putnam, Michael T.; Lipski, John – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
In this field note we discuss findings from pilot research on a variety of heritage German spoken in the Northeastern Province of Misiones of Argentina. Based on sociolinguistic field interviews with 25 consultants possessing varying degrees of proficiency in the language, we show that this variant of heritage German does in fact occasionally…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Grammar, German, Foreign Countries
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Alfaraz, Gabriela G. – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2009
Simultaneous speech and turn-taking patterns vary considerably across cultures. Research on varieties of Spanish has confirmed that frequent, lengthy overlaps within and between turns are common. In this paper it is suggested that when speakers engage in simultaneous talk, they observe Grice's Cooperative Principle by adjusting their utterances so…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Nouns, Spanish, Language Variation