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Rubattel, Christian – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1976
This article examines research done in Switzerland on languages in contact, and concludes that the limited amount of such research is due to the fact that the various languages spoken in Switzerland are spoken in adjacent areas in which bilingualism is rare. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/CLK)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Descriptive Linguistics, French, German
Py, Bernard – Contact, 1973
PACEFI is a working committee at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland. (DS)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, French, Italian
Apotheloz, Denis; Bysaeth, Leo – 1981
An investigation was conducted by students in a linguistics seminar which had two parts, a matched-guise questionnaire and a semantic differential questionnaire. The content and results of the latter are presented here. The objective of this part of the study was to determine what attitudes French-speaking Swiss students had toward languages they…
Descriptors: Adolescents, English, Foreign Countries, French
Franchi, Annalisa – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1988
Analyzes the results of a study undertaken in Switzerland, which was designed to determine the degree of integration of non-Italian children in Italian-language nursery schools in the German part of Switzerland. Attempts to synthesize the ethnic and lingusitic elements of the study are made. (CFM)
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Ethnolinguistics, Foreign Countries, Italian
Durmuller, Urs – 1989
A 1985 survey of Swiss military recruits, aged about 20, and a 1987 survey of comparable Swiss women concerning their attitudes toward English as a possible lingua franca for their multilingual country are reported. Samples consisted of responses from German-speaking Switzerland (1,930 males, 324 females), French-speaking Switzerland (1,133 males,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, French, German
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Gross, Anna-Alice Dazzi, Ed.; Mondada, Lorenza, Ed. – Bulletin suisse de linguistique applique, 1999
Articles in Italian, English, French, and German address issues in minority languages and minority language groups. They include: "The Role of Italian in Some Changes in Walser Morphosyntax" (article in Italian); "Compensatory Linguistic Strategies in the Gradual Death Process of a Minority Language: Evidence from Some Dying…
Descriptors: Basque, Cultural Context, Elementary Secondary Education, English