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Language contact, phonemic inventories, and the Athapaskan language family

Languages of the Athapaskan family were often in contact with languages of other families, and speakers were often bilingual (or multilingual)...

Keywords: areal linguistics, Athapaskan, bilingualism, borrowing, phoneme inventories, language contact

10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter
Phoneme inventories, language contact, and grammatical complexity: A critique of Trudgill

There is no support for Trudgill's thesis. There are languages with exceptionally high numbers of consonants that are spoken by large groups, sometimes by millions as a second language...

Keywords: bilingualism, creole, language contact, mixed languages, phoneme inventories, pidgin, social structure

10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter
Getting ‘emotional’ in two languages: Bilinguals' verbal performance of affect in narratives of personal experience

This article explores the cross-linguistic expression of affect by comparing how the same bilingual speaker displays affect in her two languages...

Keywords: emotion, affect, bilingualism, Narrative, French, Portuguese

09/2004 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter