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Publication details [#14924]

Stevens, Gillian. 1999. Age at immigration and second language proficiency among foreign-born adults. Language in Society 28 (4) : 555–578.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | immigrant | L2-acquisition | language proficiency

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study of U.S. census data shows that adult L2 proficiency correlates with age at immigration. Socio-demographic factors and maturational constraints are also relevant in this relationship.