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Publication Date: 2011-Apr
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Unbalanced Bilingual Acquisition as a Mechanism of Grammatical Change
Matthews, Stephen; Yip, Virginia
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, v14 n2 p159-161 Apr 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 level and the implications for language change at the community level.
Descriptors: Language Variation, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Sociolinguistics, Grammar
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