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Literaturangaben
Beiträge teilweise englisch, teilweise französisch, teilweise deutsch, teilweise spanisch, teilweise katalanisch
Description:
The contributions assembled in this volume are devoted to Trudel Meisenburg and address central aspects of her research: language contact, variation and change. Based on numerous examples from Europe and Latin America the authors examine the multifaceted dynamics of languages in situations of contact, with a particular focus on segmental and prosodic phenomena, on language acquisition in situations of multilingualism and on the repercussions of language contact in the speakers awareness and attitudes. The individual papers testify the growing interest in complex heterogeneous and hybrid language constellations and show the explanatory power of linguistic theories which account for contact-induced variability in empirical data