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Publication details [#46161]

Tandefelt, Marika and Therese Leinonen. 2007. Evidence of language loss in progress? Mother-tongue proficiency among students in Finland and Sweden. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 187,188 : 185–203.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language loss | language proficiency | language use | minority language | student

Language as a subject

Swedish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses some findings from a study on Swedish language proficiency among young Swedish-speaking Finnish and Swedish first-year university students, which point to language loss within the Finland-Swedish minority group.