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Publication details [#48831]

Trofimovich, Pavel, Elizabeth Gatbonton and Nootan Kumar. 2008. Investigating Heritage Language and Culture Links: An Indo-Canadian Hindu Perspective. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 29 (1) : 49–65.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This paper explores the hypothesis that language loss signals cultural loss, assessing first and second generation Indo-Canadian Hindi speakers' Hindi and English competence, and linking these to their behavior in a matched-guise task, representing culturally charged English and Hindi scenarios. Cultural shift did not seem to be mediated by language shift.