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Publication details [#33142]

Deumert, Ana. 2003. Markedness and salience in language contact and second-language acquisition: evidence from a non-canonical contact language. Language Sciences 25 (6) : 561–613.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

creole | language contact | markedness | saliency | second language acquisition

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

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Annotation

Arguing that the study of non-canonical contact languages such as Namibian Black German, can be relevant to our understanding of second language acquisition and use, this paper reviews questions of salience and markedness.