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L’orientation linguistique des allophones à Montréal
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L’orientation linguistique des allophones à Montréal
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| Abstract |
A study of the 1986 census which the author asserts showed that Montrealers whose mother tongue was neither English nor French assimilated to English rather than French at the same rate as earlier census figures indicated. However, he points out that divergent trends underlie this overall stability. While earlier census figures showed that Montreal-born Allophones preferred English even more massively than in 1971, French had progressed just as markedly among immigrants, though there was a visible return to English among newer arrivals. Assimilation to French seemed mainly related to the development of Spanish-, Arab-, Creole-, and Vietnamese-speaking immigration. Compulsory education in French schools also steered children of recent immigrants fairly firmly towards French. Subsequent to socio-political conditions particularly favourable to French between 1976 and 1980, the author argues that the comeback of English appeared to reflect Quebec's return to a sort of English-French bilingualism. He also noted that the preference for English among Allophones seemed to increase with length of stay in Montreal.
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Cahiers québécois de démographie
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Vol. 21
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no. 2
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95-118
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Automne 1992
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fr
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Castonguay, Charles. “L’orientation linguistique des allophones à Montréal.” Cahiers québécois de démographie Vol. 21, no. 2 (Automne 1992): 95–118. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/cqd/1992-v21-n2-cqd573/010123ar.pdf.
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