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Download full textTreffers-Daller, Jeanine – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 2001
This article discusses structural factors responsible for a number of subtle differences in the outcome of language contact in Brussels (Belgium) and Strasbourg (France), and suggest that sociolinguistic factors have little explanatory power in this area. Differences between the rules for past participle formation in Dutch as spoken in Brussels…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dutch, Foreign Countries, French
Peer reviewedMarley, Dawn – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1993
This article outlines a research project conducted in Perpignan in 1988 that sought to discover and describe the varieties of language present in the town, patterns of language use and language attitudes among inhabitants. The research took the form of a questionnaire survey, used with a representative sample of the population. (Contains 10…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Demography, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedWillemyns, Roland – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
Discusses the consequences of "language shift through erosion" on the basis of an analysis of the gradual disappearance of Dutch as a native language in French Flanders. Sketches the theoretical language-in-contact framework, breaking down the chronological evolution into diglossic, bilingual and (almost) monolingual phases. (37…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Change Agents, Communicative Competence (Languages), Context Effect
Peer reviewedDabene, Louise; Billiez, Jacqueline – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
The bilingual speech of members of Spanish, Portuguese, and Algerian communities in France was examined, and a model proposed for classification of code-switching according to speakers' intentions and the dynamics of the interaction. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Communication Skills
Peer reviewedChaudenson, Robert; And Others – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
A "system" comprising the learner-speaker, the specific linguistic system itself, and the interactions with native speakers is posited to explain the dynamics of the acquisition of French as a second language. Through self-regulation, this system devises solutions which pertain to that common area in language at the crossroads of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Creoles, French, Grammatical Acceptability
Caouette, Claudine, Ed.; Larrivee, Pierre, Ed. – 1997
English translations of articles in French in this issue include these: "Discourse Reported in the Print Media"; "Comparison of Register in Quebec and French Speakers"; "Method of Description of Specialized Verbs in View of Machine Translation Applications"; "Dialectal Areas in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Biblical Literature, Braille, Contrastive Linguistics
