first language

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Sources

• HARTMANN & STORK 1972 149 (= primary language)

  HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.

• HUDSON 1996 66

  HUDSON, R.A. (1996) Sociolinguistics, 2nd Edition. Cambridge: University Press.

• QUIRK etal. 1985 3

  QUIRK, Randolph, GREENBAUM, Sidney, LEECH, Geoffrey, & SVARTNIK, Jan. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

• ELL 5122

  The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

• MARTINET 1964[trans.] 146

  MARTINET, André. (1964 [trans.]) Elements of General Linguistics. Chicago: University of Chicago. 

• MATTHEWS 1997 130

  MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• CRYSTAL 2003 256

  CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.

• RICHARDS etal. 1992 140 (also "first language acquisition")

  RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT, J. & WEBER, H. (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.