When a child is brought up in a language contact situation there are many possible outcomes.

The structural effects of language contact depends on social conditions.

With his further contributions, this area has now become a major field of research in language contact and convergence.

What distinguishes the theories is a historical question of language contact.

It covers research on language contact, use, and change.

Language contact: borrowing of words and constructions from foreign languages.

It is unclear what kind of language contact phenomena, if any, occur in such environments.

His views on language contact and bilingualism were equally controversial.

Throughout its long and complicated history, Karaim has experienced extensive language contact.

Some forms of language contact affect only a particular segment of a speech community.

This in turn led to language contact and a diversification of language varieties.

However, even a dialog between two native deaf signers often shows some evidence of language contact.

"Prosodic structure" is important in language contact and lexical borrowing.

Language contact occurs when two or more languages or varieties interact.

However, these areal groups often do share linguistic features, but the sharing is attributed to language contact.

From ancient Cham to modern dialects: two thousand years of language contact and change.

Critics of the Altaic hypothesis attribute the similarities to language contact.

This means that a language may appear to be more distantly related than it actually is due to language contact.

The study of language contact is called contact linguistics.

Widespread multilingualism is one form of language contact.

Language contact describes changes that occur when languages come into contact, including sound change and external history.

The assumed period of language contact could then be later, perhaps continuing well into the first millennium BC.

Language contact with Spanish has influenced Wappo's sound structure and vocabulary.

Far more common is for the two languages to have an unequal power relationship, as is the case of many colonial language contact situations.

The Bilingual Child: early development and language contact.