An Introduction to BilingualismIt is the policy of the Longman Linguistics Library series to cover all aspects of linguistics, descriptive and historical, theoretical and methodological. Some of its books serve as introductions to key aspects of the subject, others are more specialized. In all cases the books are self-contained: they are intended to treat important areas in general linguistics and to be of value for a number of years. |
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Page 166
... dialect , but clearly this does not hold for the dialect speaker . There are , however , speech communities where all speakers need to know at least two varieties because each language form is associated with a specific set of social ...
... dialect , but clearly this does not hold for the dialect speaker . There are , however , speech communities where all speakers need to know at least two varieties because each language form is associated with a specific set of social ...
Page 250
... dialects thus range from Franconian , a central German one , to Alemannic , which belongs to the Upper German dialect group . These dialects are spoken as their mother tongues by the majority of speakers throughout the region , although ...
... dialects thus range from Franconian , a central German one , to Alemannic , which belongs to the Upper German dialect group . These dialects are spoken as their mother tongues by the majority of speakers throughout the region , although ...
Page 255
... dialect areas ) . The other factor relates to the question of separation of function . One can say that , in general ... dialect in Alsace , and the figures were published in 1981. They revealed that in the region of Haut - Rhin 73 per ...
... dialect areas ) . The other factor relates to the question of separation of function . One can say that , in general ... dialect in Alsace , and the figures were published in 1981. They revealed that in the region of Haut - Rhin 73 per ...
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