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Article published In: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
Vol. 15:2 (1992) ► pp.19–28

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Metalinguistic awareness in Dutch immigrants

 | University of Nijmegen
Published online: 1 January 1992
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.15.2.02deb
Abstract
In this paper data are presented on some aspects of metalinguistic awareness in Dutch adults who emigrated to Australia at least 25 years ago. A grammatically judgement test was administered to 37 informants in Melbourne. The data show that the migrants do not differ significantly from a control group in the Netherlands. This outcome, which is in line with earlier findings from Dutch migrants in France, suggests that metalinguistic skills in L1 are extremely resistent to attrition.
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