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Brussels French une fois: Transfer-induced innovation or system-internal development
(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 2005)
In language contact studies, specific features of the contact languages are often seen to be the result of transfer (interference), but it remains difficult to disentangle the role of intra-systemic and inter-systemic ...
Contact-induced linguistic innovations on the continum of language use: The case of French in Ontario
(Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications, 2005)
In this paper we present a methodological approach that can be used to determine the likelihood that innovations observed in a minority language are the result of language contact. We then use this methodological approach ...