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Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution
Edited by Stephen Fafulas
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 23] 2020
► pp. 35–56

Chapter 2
Bilingualism, second language acquisition, and language contact

Contrasts and shared processes

| Indiana University, United States
| Indiana University, United States

This chapter introduces the central issues and concepts in the fields of bilingualism, contact linguistics, and second language acquisition, with an eye to identifying generalizations and key distinctions. For example, although authors use terms like transfer, interference, bilinguals, etc., across fields, these sometimes have the same meaning and other times depend on the subfield of linguistics in which they are employed. While there is a good deal of overlap between these fields, the current chapter provides an overview of studies and findings related to these concepts in order to help orient the reader to the hypotheses, methodologies, and discussions contained in the present volume.

Keywords: second language acquisition, input, universal processes, variation, bilinguals
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Bilingualism: Definitions and scope of research
  • Bilingualism and languages in contact with Spanish
  • Second language acquisition
  • Language contact
  • Tracing linguistic phenomena across contexts
    • Case 1: Mood contrast
    • Case 2: Copula choice
    • Case 3: Direct object pronouns
  • Conclusion and future directions
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 15 July 2020
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