The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of th

This book explores two main areas. First, what a high level of proficiency in two languages consists of, and second, what factors can produce this high level of

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Deals with challenges to the maintenance of minority (or community) languages in this era of globalization and increasing transnational movements of people. The

This book provides an in-depth examination of minority language maintenance and loss within a group of first-generation Spanish-speaking families in the early-2