The age factor in language practices and attitudes: continuity and change in Ukraine's bilingualism.

This article analyzes inter-cohort differences and intra-cohort changes in language proficiencies, use patterns and attitudes in a society undergoing a radical political and cultural transformation. My analysis focuses on Ukraine, a country with an asymmetrical bilingualism where the new independent...

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Publicado en:Nationalities Papers Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 283 - 302
Autor principal: Kulyk, Volodymyr
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Mar2015
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