Romance Languages

The volume offers a collection of papers on Romance linguistics from two perspectives: multilingualism and language acquisition. The contributions deal with language contact, language attitude and code switching in multilingual societies, and the acquisition of suprasegmental features. Spoken language is a central theme.

This volume contains a collection of papers that deal with Romance linguistics from two broad perspectives: multilingualism and language acquisition. Some of the contributions investigate these phenomena in the light of language contact, language attitudes and code switching in multilingual societies or multilingual families. Others focus on the acquisition of rhythmic patterns, intonation or even emotions in a second language. Many of the contributions present themes related to oral production or speech. The book in itself is multilingual and includes papers written in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and English.

Suprasegmental phonology Sociolinguistics Language Contact Language attitudes Code switching Acquisition of emotions Italian Spanish Portuguese Malta.