Abstract
Language contact is generally defined as the use of different languages at once in the same geographical area. From a sociolinguistic perspective, language contact is considered as a product of different social forces and can be examined with regard to a specific speech community. From a psycholinguistic perspective, languages may also be in contact inside one individual. This type of language contact is generally referred to as bi- or plurilingualism. Members of a speech community characterized by language contact may be monolingual speakers of only one of the languages in contact. This chapter aims to contribute to the discussion on how to provide sufficient and unequivocal evidence for the respective case of language change in a contact situation. For this purpose it will be questioned if the analysis of bilingual language processing provides adequate tools to investigate contact-induced language change. Keywords: bilingual language processing; contact-induced language change; plurilingualism; psycholinguistic perspective; sociolinguistic perspective
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