224 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded introduction to contact linguistics. Rather than taking a traditional focus on the outcomes of language contact, this book takes the novel approach of considering these outcomes as an endpoint of bilingualism and multilingualism. Covering speech production and comprehension, language diffusion across different... Read more

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I

From milliseconds to minutes: What bilinguals do when they speak or sign

Chapter 1

Interactive alignment and implicit priming

Chapter 2

Conceptual transfer

Chapter 3

Cognitive costs and cognitive load

PART II

From minutes to years: What bilinguals do when they communicate with others

Chapter 4

Code-switching, repertoires, and translanguaging

Chapter 5

Social networks and accommodation

Chapter 6

Acquisition and attrition

Chapter 7

Language ideologies and dispositions

PART III

From years to centuries: How languages change through contact

Chapter 8

Contact-induced changes in grammar and borrowing

Chapter 9

Linguistic areas

Chapter 10

Creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages

Chapter 11

Minority languages, heritage languages, and immigrant linguistic practices

Conclusion

Answers to exercises

Glossary

Author index

Subject index

Biography

Evangelia Adamou is Senior Researcher at the CNRS, France.

Barbara E. Bullock is Professor of French Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Almeida Jacqueline Toribio is Professor of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin, USA.