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Publication details [#12726]
Boyd, Sally. 1993. Attrition or expansion? Changes in the lexicon of Finnish and American adult bilinguals in Sweden. In Hyltenstam, Kenneth and Åke Viberg. Progression & regression in language. Sociocultural, neuropsychologial & linguistic perspectives. Cambridge University Press. pp. 386–411.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
This paper discusses the phenomenon of L2-origin words creeping into L1-speech in various forms and contrasts the patterns of incorporations of Swedish-origin lexemes into the English and the Finnish of adult bilinguals living in Göteborg.