2017
DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4083
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Stages of language shift in twentieth-century Inner Mongolia

Abstract: Abstract. Mongolian as a minority language in China is losing speakers, although several million remain in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The case of 20th-century Inner Mongolia is an example of the long-term processes that may precede language endangerment. This paper takes Fishman's (1991) notion of language shift as a decline in intergenerational mother tongue transmission and formalizes it for quantitative research, applying the methodology to a retrospective survey of intergenerational language… Show more

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“…Another account of the stages of LS was provided by Puthuval (2017), who studied LS in Mongolian families over the past eighty years. Although the LS stages he suggested seem to be specific to the Mongolian community, nevertheless they are significant to point out.…”
Section: 2stages Of Lsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another account of the stages of LS was provided by Puthuval (2017), who studied LS in Mongolian families over the past eighty years. Although the LS stages he suggested seem to be specific to the Mongolian community, nevertheless they are significant to point out.…”
Section: 2stages Of Lsmentioning
confidence: 99%