Romance Languages: Multilingualism and Language Acquisition

ISBN-13: 9783631717585 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 181 str.

Gudmundson, Anna

Opis

The volume offers a collection of papers on Romance linguistics from two perspectives: multilingualism and language acquisition. The contributions deal with language contact, language attitude and code switching in multilingual societies, and the acquisition of suprasegmental features. Spoken language is a central theme.

Spis treści

Suprasegmental phonology - Sociolinguistics - Language Contact - Language attitudes - Code switching - Acquisition of emotions - Italian - Spanish - Portuguese - Malta.

O autorze

Anna Gudmundson is a researcher and teacher at Stockholm University. Her research concerns second language acquisition and Italian linguistics, with a special interest in morphology, vocabulary learning and the mental lexicon.

Laura Álvarez López is professor of Portuguese at Stockholm University. As a sociolinguist, her research interests encompass language contact, variation and change at all levels of linguistic analysis.

Camilla Bardel is professor of language education at Stockholm University. Her research interests lie within second and third language learning, vocabulary, syntax and pragmatics.