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Record 1 2013-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Demography
CONT

It is difficult to understand how anyone can seriously argue that a language transfer has occurred whenever the home language differs from the mother tongue. Richard J. Joy in Lamy, Paul (ed), Language Maintenance and Language Shift in Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Démographie
CONT

Quand la langue parlée à la maison diffère de la langue maternelle, on dit qu'il y a transfert linguistique. Réjean Lachapelle, Analyse de la mobilité linguistique : indices, observations et modèles.

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