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This is a fascinating new study examining how contact-induced change can alter a previously monolingual society to create one that is increasingly bilingual.Anna Verschik offers a new perspective on how a previously monolingual community of Russian-speakers in Estonia is rapidly becoming bilingual after the end of the Soviet occupation in 1991.The contact-induced change in Russian under the growing impact of Estonian is analysed in the theoretical framework of code-copying. Changes in linguistic behaviour of the speakers are often a result of intentional cultivation of non-monolingual communication strategies and language policies, and go hand in hand with the development of a new identity, 'Estonian Russians'."Emerging Bilingual Speech" is a fascinating study that will be of interest to researchers studying language contact, language change and bilingualism.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Psycholinguistics

• Full title: Emerging Bilingual Speech
• Author: Anna Verschik
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 270
• EAN: 9780826497208
• ISBN: 0826497209
• ID: 01258737
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 548 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 163 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. October 2008

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