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Publication details [#29346]

Waas, Margit. 1993. Loss of first language skills in the community: Intermediate stage. Language Problems and Language Planning 17 (3) : 225–237.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

immigrant | language loss | language proficiency | second language acquisition | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English, Australian | German

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0272-2690

Journal DOI

10.1075/lplp

Annotation

This paper reports on the intermediate stage of a sociolinguistic study into nonpathological first language loss in a second language environment, carried out among permanent residents and naturalized citicizens of German-speaking background in Australia.