Incomplete L1 Acquisition in the Immigrant Situation : : Yiddish in the United States / / Glenn S. Levine.

In order to establish a model for the investigation of 'incomplete L1 acquisition' - the phenomenon whereby a bilingual speaker incompletely acquires the socially non-dominant language - the author offers a description and analysis of the speech of ten elderly speakers of Yiddish who acqui...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2015]
©2000
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Reprint 2015
Language:English
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten , 426
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Physical Description:1 online resource (104 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table Of Contents
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • 1. Goals and Theoretical Framework
  • 2. The study
  • 3. The language of incomplete LI acquisition in the immigrant situation
  • 4. Social and sociolinguistic factors in the incomplete LI acquisition of Yiddish among primary informants
  • 5. Evidence of incomplete LI acquisition in primary informants' speech: Choice of auxiliary in the present perfect tense
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Index