Starman or Sterrenman: An acquisitional perspective on the social meaning of English in Flanders

• Published in: The international journal of bilingualism : cross-disciplinary, cross-linguistic studies of language behavior Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 568 - 591
• Main Authors: Zenner, Eline, Rosseel, Laura, Speelman, Dirk
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.06.2021; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Age groups; Bilingualism; Children; Content words; Creativity; Dutch language; English language; Flemish; Heroism & heroes; Language acquisition; Language contact; Language Research; Language status; Lexicon; Metalinguistics; Pragmatics; Prestige; Psychology; Receptive language; Resistance (Psychology); Social meaning; Social psychology; Sociolinguistics; Vocabulary; Vocabulary Development; Word meaning; Belgium; Flanders Belgium; matched guise; Social meaning; English; children; language contact; developmental sociolinguistics; acquisition

Objective: This paper reports on an experiment conducted with 174 Flemish children in three age groups, namely first, third and fifth year of primary school, aiming to assess the social meaning children associate with English-sourced lexemes in Belgian Dutch. Method: The children were presented with...