Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Volume 9, Issue 1-2, 1988, Pages 129-140

Immigrant children’s swedish - a new variety? (Article)

Kotsinas U.-B.*
  • a Department of Scandinavian Languages, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, 10691, Sweden

Abstract

As a consequence of the great immigration in Sweden during recent decades, about one tenth of the children in Swedish schools have an immigrant background of different kinds. Many of them use a Swedish that differs more or less from native Swedish and that has been characterised as ‘poor’ and as the result of incomplete learning. In this paper two hypotheses are discussed: (1) Swedish as used by immigrant children may show certain features, related to a creolisation process; and (2) the Swedish language may in future show signs of influence from the varieties used by persons with immigrant background. © 1988 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

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DOI: 10.1080/01434632.1988.9994324
ISSN: 01434632
Cited by: 41
Original Language: English