Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact Series

18 primary works • 18 total works
Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact is an interdisciplinary series bringing together work on language contact from a diverse range of research areas. The series focuses on key topics in the study of contact between languages or dialects, including the development of pidgins and creoles, language evolution and change, world Englishes, code-swit…
Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular: Variation and Change in the Colombian Chocó
Exploring creole studies from a linguistic, histor…
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Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact
Contributions from an international team of expert…
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Complexity in Language: Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives
The question of complexity, as in what makes one l…
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Language Contact in Europe: The Periphrastic Perfect through History
This comprehensive new work provides extensive evi…
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The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars: Language Contact and Change
Children are extremely gifted in acquiring their n…
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The Making of Vernacular Singapore English: System, Transfer, and Filter
Singapore English is a focal point across the many…
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Diglossia and Language Contact: Language Variation and Change in North Africa
This volume provides a detailed analysis of langua…
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Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific
This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic …
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Bilingual Language Acquisition: Spanish and English in the First Six Years
How do children develop bilingual competence? Do b…
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The Sociolinguistics of Globalization
4.27
· 48 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2010 · 12 editions
Human language has changed in the age of no longer…
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Contact Languages: Ecology and Evolution in Asia
4.50
· 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 9 editions
Why do groups of speakers in certain times and pla…
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The Linguistic Legacy of Spanish and Portuguese
The historical spread of Spanish and Portuguese th…
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A Linguistic Geography of Africa
3.50
· 2 Ratings · published 2007 · 7 editions
More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that…
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The Bilingual Child: Early Development and Language Contact
2.25
· 4 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2007 · 12 editions
How does a child become bilingual? The answer to t…
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Postcolonial English: Varieties around the World
3.73
· 11 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2007 · 12 editions
The global spread of English has resulted in the e…
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Language Contact and Grammatical Change
4.00
· 3 Ratings · published 2005 · 11 editions
The phenomenon of language contact, and how it aff…
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Dynamics of Language Contact: English and Immigrant Languages
Written by an expert in the field, this study exam…
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The Ecology of Language Evolution
3.91
· 11 Ratings · published 2001 · 9 editions
This major new work explores the development of cr…
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