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Swiss German dialects spoken by second-generation immigrants: bilingual speech and dialect transformation

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2025
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Schmid, S. (2025). Swiss German dialects spoken by second-generation immigrants: bilingual speech and dialect transformation. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 46(4), 1043–1058. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2020.1730386

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German-speaking Switzerland is characterised by a type of diglossia where the ‘low variety’ is used in almost all domains of everyday communication. For children of immigrant workers, a Swiss German dialect normally constitutes one of their two first languages. Nevertheless, one can observe two different scenarios how the dialect enters the repertoire of these multilingual subjects. The first scenario entails the combined use of a heritage language (e.g. Italian) and a Swiss German dialect. Code-switching among peers of the same ethni

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46

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4

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1043

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1058

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German

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2025-04-21

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2020-03-30

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0143-4632

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255 since deposited on 2020-03-30
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313 since deposited on 2020-03-30
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Schmid, S. (2025). Swiss German dialects spoken by second-generation immigrants: bilingual speech and dialect transformation. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 46(4), 1043–1058. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2020.1730386

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