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Publication details [#56719]

De Angelis, Gessica. 2012. The effect of population distribution on L1 and L2 acquisition: evidence from the multilingual region of South Tyrol. The International Journal of Multilingualism 9 (4) : 407–422.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative efficiency | geolinguistics | L1-acquisition | L2-acquisition | multilingualism

Language as a subject

German | Italian

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper explores how population distribution affects L1 (Italian) and L2 (German) learning in the multilingual environment of South Tyrol, Italy. Room for communication then appears to influence L2 acquisition, but not L1 acquisition.