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Publication details [#28246]

Geer, Boel De and Marja-Terttu Tryggvason. 2002. Eliciting talk as language socialization in Finnish, Swedish-Finnish, and Swedish families: A look at syntactic structures. Multilingua 21 (4) : 345–369.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | dinner conversation | family conversation | language and culture | socialization

Language as a subject

Finnish | Swedish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0167-8507

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This paper investigates possible explanations for the higher amount of Swedish dinner talk as compared to that of Finns and Swedish Finns, such as variation in the use of syntactic structures and other factors such as adult models, discontinuous Finnish talk and early participation in family talk.