Bilingualism in the Philippine setting / Rosalina Morales Goulet

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Philippines : Souvenir Publications, c1968Description: 189 pages ; 22 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • LB 1131 .G68 1968
Contents:
I. The Contact situation: geographical, historical and cultural factors affecting bilingualism -- II. The Tagalog language: Phonological, morphological and semantic borrowings -- III. Interference: grammatical, lexical and cultural -- IV. The Tagalog bilingual and language behavior: factors influencing borrowings, mixing and language choice.
Summary: This study covers a wide range in point of time and place, and represents the results of some years of formal and informal studies in bilingualism and biculturalism. It dates back to the time when I learned my first English poem at my mother's knee and when I discovered I could read a weekly Tagalog comic strip without help. My Interest in English and language in general was encourage and sustained by the Filipino and American teachers I have had since grade school.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Graduate Studies Filipiniana Gen. Ed - CEAS FIL LB 1131 .G68 1968 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000012658

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I. The Contact situation: geographical, historical and cultural factors affecting bilingualism -- II. The Tagalog language: Phonological, morphological and semantic borrowings -- III. Interference: grammatical, lexical and cultural -- IV. The Tagalog bilingual and language behavior: factors influencing borrowings, mixing and language choice.

This study covers a wide range in point of time and place, and represents the results of some years of formal and informal studies in bilingualism and biculturalism. It dates back to the time when I learned my first English poem at my mother's knee and when I discovered I could read a weekly Tagalog comic strip without help. My Interest in English and language in general was encourage and sustained by the Filipino and American teachers I have had since grade school.

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