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Unbalanced bilingual acquisition as a mechanism of grammatical change*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2011

STEPHEN MATTHEWS  and
VIRGINIA YIP
STEPHEN MATTHEWS
Affiliation:
University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kongmatthews@hkucc.hku.hk
VIRGINIA YIP
Affiliation:
Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kongvcymatthews@cuhk.edu.hk
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Bilingual first language acquisition (BFLA) has been considered a possible mechanism of contact-induced change in several recent studies (Siegel, 2008, p. 117; Satterfield, 2005, p. 2075; Thomason, 2001, p. 148; Yip & Matthews, 2007, p.15). There is as yet little consensus on the question, with divergent views regarding both BFLA at the individual level and the implications for language change at the community level.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , April 2011 , pp. 159 - 161
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