Publications

Publication details [#58204]

Ross, Malcolm. 2013. Diagnosing Contact Processes from their Outcomes: The Importance of Life Stages. Journal of language contact 6 (1) : 5–47.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | bilingual acquisition | language change | language contact | language shift

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This article confirms that bilingually and shift-induced language change have different results, which can help rebuild the prehistoric past, in particular the linguistic prehistory of (smallscale neolithic) Melanesian societies.