Multilingualism and Language Contact in Asia-Pacific
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 11:1/2 (2025)
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[Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 11:1/2] 2025. vi, 222 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 12 March 2026
Published online on 12 March 2026
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Table of Contents
- Editorial notep. 1
- Dimensions of multilingualism and language contactShobha Satyanath | pp. 2–20
- Insights from the Heritage Language Variation and Change in Toronto Project (HLVC)Naomi Nagy | pp. 21–30
- Talk across the Pacific: Developments in understanding traditional and modern multilingualismDanielle Barth, Laura Arnold, Kira Davey, Caroline Hendy, Saurabh Kumar Nath, Keira Mullan & Sam Passmore | pp. 31–40
- Stability in the face of contact: /u/ in (Heritage) TagalogPocholo Umbal | pp. 41–71
- Rethinking (from) the Islands: What Philippine sociolinguistic patterns teach us about multilingualism, language variation, and changeWilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales | pp. 72–111
- Switching or selecting? Competing and/or complementary perspectives on discourse markers in multilingual conversationsHannah Davidson | pp. 112–141
- Detecting paths of change in the heritage context: Directional motion event expression in Cantonese spoken in Toronto and Hong KongJustin R. Leung | pp. 142–186
- Contrast, context, and contact: Phonetic variation in the Assamese mid front vowel spaceSaurabh Kumar Nath | pp. 187–222
Editorial
Introduction
Commentaries
Articles