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What's in a grammar? Modeling dominance and optimization in contact

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2013

DEVYANI SHARMA
DEVYANI SHARMA*
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Queen Mary, University of [email protected]
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Muysken's article is a timely call for us to seek deeper regularities in the bewildering diversity of language contact outcomes. His model provocatively suggests that most such outcomes can be subsumed under four speaker optimization strategies. I consider two aspects of the proposal here: the formalization in Optimality Theory (OT) and the reduction of contact outcomes to four basic strategies.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , October 2013 , pp. 731 - 733
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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