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Unbalanced Bilingual Acquisition as a Mechanism of Grammatical Change
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Matthews, Stephen; Yip, Virginia – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
Bilingual first language acquisition (BFLA) has been considered a possible mechanism of contact-induced change in several recent studies (Siegel, 2008, p. 117; Satterfield, 2005, p. 2075; Thomason, 2001, p. 148; Yip & Matthews, 2007, p.15). There is as yet little consensus on the question, with divergent views regarding both BFLA at the individual…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning