@article{745126,
      author = {Austin, Jennifer, and Blume, María, and Sánchez,  Liliana,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/745126},
      title = {Bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world : linguistic  and cognitive perspectives /},
      abstract = {"Bilingualism has given rise to significant changes in  Spanish-speaking countries. In the US, the increasing  importance of Spanish has engendered an English-only  movement; in Peru, contact between Spanish and Quechua has  brought about language change; and in Iberia, speakers of  Basque, Galician and Catalan have made their languages a  compulsory part of school curricula and local government.  This book provides an introduction to bilingualism in the  Spanish-speaking world, looking at topics such as language  contact, bilingual societies, bilingualism in schools,  code-switching, language transfer, the emergence of new  varieties of Spanish, and language choice - and how all of  these phenomena affect the linguistic and cognitive  development of the speaker. Using examples and case studies  drawn primarily from Spanish/English bilinguals in the US,  Spanish/Quechua bilinguals in Peru and Spanish/Basque  bilinguals in Spain, it provides diverse perspectives on  the experience of being bilingual in distinct cultural,  political and socioeconomic contexts"--},
      recid = {745126},
      pages = {xiv, 234 pages :},
}