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Multilingualism and Language Contact: An Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2009

G. Richard Tucker
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Various facets of the general topic of multilingualism have been dealt with in previous ARAL volumes and as a major substantive focus in Volumes 6 and 14. Nonetheless, it does not seem at all surprising that we return to the topic in Volume 17 given the worldwide incidence of the phenomenon and the attention, and often controversy, which it arouses. Despite pressures and influences toward commonality from a seemingly pervasive mass media, the residents of the world continue to speak an amazing array of mutually unintelligible languages (see, for example, Bright 1992, Cheshire 1991, Comrie 1987, Edwards 1995). These languages vary in typological characteristics, geographical spread, and number of speakers. If written, they also vary in terms of the type of system that is used to record them (e.g., alphabetic, logographic, syllabic-alphabetic).

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Foundations of Multilingualism
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 17 , March 1997 , pp. 3 - 10
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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