Particularities of Romanian as acquired by young bilingual immigrants in Spain
Particularities of Romanian as acquired by young bilingual immigrants in Spain
Author(s): Paul BuzilăSubject(s): Foreign languages learning, Pragmatics, Comparative Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Social psychology and group interaction, Migration Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: language contact; bilingualism; linguistic interference; Rumañol;
Summary/Abstract: Romanian immigration in Spain reached its peak towards the end of the 2000’s, putting the Romanians on the first place among the immigrant communities in Spain. Several linguistic studies have already posited the existence of a new Romanian variety, the so-called Rumañol, strongly marked by linguistic interference phenomena. This paper uses a quantitative approach and compares the amounts of interference that can be observed in the speech of two distinct immigrant groups, early and late bilinguals, in order to reveal the particularities of the Romanian variety spoken by Romanian children born in or taken to Spain at early ages.
Journal: Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
- Issue Year: 18/2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 69-82
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English