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Rehner, Katherine – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2011
This paper examines two sociolinguistic lexical variables, "work" and "to dwell," in the spoken French of former immersion students in their first or fourth year at a bilingual university in Ontario, Canada. Their patterns of use are compared to those of non-immersion graduates in the same institution, to Ontario high school…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Immersion Programs, Foreign Countries, French
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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