‘Multilingualism’ refers to two different things: on the one hand the ability of an individual to use several languages, on the other hand a situation where, within a social group, several languages are used (linguistic contact). As a result, research into multilingualism can look at multilingual individuals or a multilingual society; accordingly, points of contact arise to psycho- and neurolinguistics on the one hand or to sociolinguistics and his…
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Binder, Vera (Gießen),
Schwemer, Daniel (Würzburg),
Quack, Joachim (Berlin) and
Rieken, Elisabeth (Berlin),
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