Language contact across the lifespan
Original version
Fløgstad, G. N. & Lanza, E. (2019). Language contact across the lifespan. I J. Darquennes, J. C. Salmons & W. Vandenbussche (Red.), Language contact: An international handbook (Bd. 1, s. 172-184). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110435351-015Abstract
The outcome of a multilingual encounter depends on a number of factors. Contact may be of various kinds and may differ in duration, and speakers may belong to different sociocultural groups depending on such variables as socioeconomic status, gender, and, crucially, age. Furthermore, the outcomes may consequently differ in nature − from lexical loan words, to prosodic transfer and morphosyntactic simplification, to the formation of new contact varieties. This chapter provides a state of the art overview of the ways in which age affects the outcome of a linguistic contact situation, and the way in which age is relevant to the formation of that outcome