Language Assimilation Today: Bilingualism Persists More Than In the Past, But English Still Dominates

Author: 
Alba, Richard
Year: 
2004
Publisher: 
Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research, State University of New York at Albany
Publication Location: 
Albany, NY
Description: 

Analyzes 2000 Census data on languages spoken at home by school-age children in newcomer families, and finds that English is almost universally accepted by the children and grandchildren of the immigrants who have come to the United States in great numbers since the 1960s, similar to earlier generations of immigrants.

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