Proficiency, Attitude and Conventions in Minority Languages

Annick Laruelle (), Noemí Navarro and Ramón Escobedo ()
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Annick Laruelle: UPV / EHU - Universidad del País Vasco [Espainia] / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea [España] = University of the Basque Country [Spain] = Université du pays basque [Espagne], Ikerbasque - Basque Foundation for Science
Ramón Escobedo: Basque Center for Applied Mathematics

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Abstract: In this article, we study a simple mathematical model of a bilingual community in which all agents are fluent in the majority language but only a fraction of the population has some degree of proficiency in the minority language. We investigate how different distributions of proficiency, combined with the speakers' attitudes toward or against the minority language, may influence its use in pair conversations.

Keywords: social choice; bilingualism; minority languages; linguistics; mathematical model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-10-01
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Published in Sociological Methods and Research, 2015, 48 (2), pp.004912411667267. ⟨10.1177/0049124116672679⟩

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Journal Article: Proficiency, Attitude, and Conventions in Minority Languages (2019)
Working Paper: Proficiency, Attitude, and Conventions in Minority Languages (2016)
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DOI: 10.1177/0049124116672679

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