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Bilingual intonation patterns: Evidence of language change from Turkish-German bilingual children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2001

Robin M. Queen
Robin M. Queen
Affiliation:
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Program in Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275, rqueen@umich.edu
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Abstract

This article discusses Turkish-German bilingual children's intonation patterns as they relate to processes of contact-induced language change. Bilingual speakers use two distinct rises in both Turkish and German. One rise (L*HH%) resembles a characteristic German rise, while the other (L%H%) resembles a characteristic Turkish rise. The rises pattern pragmatically in ways that are non-normative for both Turkish and German. Although this pattern is not clearly attributable to language interference (either borrowing or shift-induced language change), it is certainly the result of language contact. Fusion is proposed to account for the two-way influence between the two languages.

Keywords

Language contactintonationGermanTurkishTurkish immigrants in Germany
Type
Research Article
Information
Language in Society , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 2001 , pp. 55 - 80
Copyright
2001 Cambridge University Press

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