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Direct linkBackus, Ad – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
This issue of "Bilingualism: Language and Cognition" is about convergence, a type of language change that is contact-induced and results in greater similarity between two languages that are in contact with each other. In Backus (forthcoming), I have attempted an overview of contact-induced language change, focusing on causal factors, on mechanisms…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Bilingualism, Convergent Thinking, Language Classification
