Immigrant children's Swedish — A new variety?
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
- Vol. 9 (1-2) , 129-140
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.1988.9994324
Abstract
As a consequence of the great immigration in Sweden during recent decades, about one tenth of the children in Swedish schools have an immigrant background of different kinds. Many of them use a Swedish that differs more or less from native Swedish and that has been characterised as ‘poor’ and as the result of incomplete learning. In this paper two hypotheses are discussed: (1) Swedish as used by immigrant children may show certain features, related to a creolisation process; and (2) the Swedish language may in future show signs of influence from the varieties used by persons with immigrant background.Keywords
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