More about "Home Language"

Title

Home Language

Description

Language contact: Inevitably, the other languages that individuals are exposed to influence the way they use their native or prominent language. For example, language(culture)-specific idiomatic expressions in the spoken language used in the home might be translated to SASL. Participants who are exposed to other languages in which those specific expressions do not exist, will not know the SASL translation. Places often had multiple names in different spoken languages. A comparison between home language, place names in that language, and the variants that the participant know could be evidence of language contact.

Read more about Sociolinguistic Variables