Publications

Publication details [#53333]

Nesteruk, Olena. 2010. Heritage language maintenance and loss among the children of Eastern European immigrants in the USA. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 31 (3) : 271–286.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | immigrant | language loss | language maintenance | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Languages, Eastern European

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study explores heritage language maintenance and loss amidst the children of immigrant Eastern European professionals, living in the U.S. It discusses the roles played by individual, family and community factors in second generation language maintenance.