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Hermas, Abdelkader – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2014
This study considers the upper limit of ultimate attainment in the L2 French and L3 English of trilingual learners. The learners are native speakers of Moroccan Arabic who started learning L2 French at eight and L3 English at 16. They are advanced in both languages. Four constructions representing the verb movement and null subject parameter were…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, French, English (Second Language), Semitic Languages
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Verschik, Anna – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2010
This article presents the concept of Jewish Lithuanian as a range of post-Yiddish varieties spoken by some Jews in Lithuania and seeks to synthesise findings in contemporary ethnolect studies and in the field of Jewish language research. The legitimacy of the term "ethnolect" is questioned by some researchers; however, it is argued that…
Descriptors: Jews, Language Research, Multilingualism, Monolingualism
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Stavans, Anat; Swisher, Virginia – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
The present study discusses and describes codeswitches produced by two trilingual children acquiring English, Spanish and Hebrew simultaneously from birth. Data were collected regularly over a period of 20 months (from age 2;6 to 4;2 for M and from age 5;5 to 7;1 for E), in naturalistic tape-recorded sessions. Codeswitches drawn from…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning