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Bilingualism and Language Maintenance in the Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec, Canada
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Mougeon, Raymond – Anthropological Linguistics, 1976
Studies the English-speaking and French-speaking populations of the Gaspe, focusing on socioeconomic status, mother tongue retention and bilingualism rates. This is followed by a detailed study of a small, linguistically mixed community in Gaspe East, reconstructing the community as it was in 1925 and describing it as it was in 1970. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, French, Language Maintenance
Acquisition du francais en situation minoritaire. Le cas des franco-ontariens (French Acquisition in a Minority Language Situation. The Case of Franco-Ontarians).
Mougeon, Raymond; And Others – Francais dans le Monde, 1984
Analysis of the acquisition of French as a second language in a situation where it is a minority language, as in Ontario, shows how acquisition and learning can be combined, and how the study of such a sociolinguistic situation seems necessary to the development of appropriate teaching methods. (MSE)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, English, Foreign Countries
Contact-Induced Linguistic Innovations on the Continuum of Language Use: The Case of French in Ontario
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Mougeon, Raymond; Nadasdi, Terry; Rehner, Katherine – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2005
In this paper we present a methodological approach that can be used to determine the likelihood that innovations observed in a minority language are the result of language contact. We then use this methodological approach to frame a discussion of data concerning eight innovations that can be attributed to transfer from the majority language…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Foreign Countries, French, Indo European Languages