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Emerging Bilingual Speech: From Monolingualism to Code-Copying
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Emerging Bilingual Speech: From Monolingualism to Code-Copying
Anna Verschik offers a new perspective on how a previously monolingual community of Russian-speakers in Estonia is rapidly becoming bilingual after the end of the Soviet occupation in 1991.
The contact-induced change in Russian under the growing impact of Estonian is analysed in the theoretical framework of code-copying.
Changes in linguistic behaviour of the speakers are often a result of intentional cultivation of non-monolingual communication strategies and language policies, and go hand in hand with the development of a new identity, 'Estonian Russians'.
 
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Tags: Estonian, intentional, result, cultivation, non-monolingual