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In this study, which is based on questionnaire data collected in 2013 from 430 Mal- tese informants, we investigate ongoing language change in Maltese English. We concentrate on 63 pairs of lexical variants that are known to differ in usage be- tween British English and American English (e.g. vacation vs. holiday). Overall, informants clearly tend towards BrE usage. Regardless of the statistical approach we adopt, our studies show consistently apparent-time trends towards a less ex- clusively British English usage in Malta, converging on a more globalized usage of lexical items, in particular among the youngest cohorts. This confirms trends reported for older Maltese English data (collected in 2008; see Krug 2015). While Age emerges as the most important factor in our data, lexical choices are also sen- sitive to the native languages of the informants’ parents. When the mother’s na- tive language(s) includes English, the informants’ lexical choices are biased in the expected direction, figuring in an increase in Britishness of the informants. Infor- mants whose parents’ L1 is neither English nor Maltese show the highest degree of linguistic globalization. Overall, the native language(s) of the mother appeared to be more influential than that of the father.
questionnaire data, language change, 420, Maltese English
questionnaire data, language change, 420, Maltese English
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