Borrowing and Shift-Induced Interference: Contrasting Patterns in French-Germanic Contact in Brussels and Strasbourg.

Treffers-Daller, Jeanine

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Publication Date: 1999

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Borrowing and Shift-Induced Interference: Contrasting Patterns in French-Germanic Contact in Brussels and Strasbourg.

Treffers-Daller, Jeanine

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, v2 n1 p1-22 Apr 1999

Tests hypotheses from the model for contact-induced language change as formulated in Thomason and Kaufman (1998) and Thomason (1998). The model correctly predicts the asymmetries between the mutual influences of the 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

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Belgium; France

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