Publications

Publication details [#57634]

Velázquez, Isabel. 2013. Mother's social network and family language maintenance. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 34 (2) : 189–202.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language maintenance | language proficiency | language transfer | mother-child conversation | social network

Language as a subject

Spanish, Mexican

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study suggests that in Mexican Spanish families (living in El paso; nearby Chicago and in Lincoln), Spanish transfer is affected by mothers' linguistic proficiency, their benefit/cost perception, and their participation in networks where Spanish is lined with social capital.