The native speaker and the mother tongue

This article presents a historical account of the role and function in linguistic theorising of the concepts “native speaker” and “mother tongue”, and serves to introduce a number of articles (Language Sciences vol. 32 no. 6) raising questions about various aspects of the idealised monolingualism th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Love, Nigel, Ansaldo, Umberto
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86368