The native speaker and the mother tongue

Love, Nigel; Ansaldo, Umberto

doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2010.09.003

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Love, Nigel

Ansaldo, Umberto

Date

2010

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Journal Article

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Love, N. and Ansaldo, U. 2010. The native speaker and the mother tongue. Language Sciences. 32 (6): pp. 589-593.

Source Title

Language Sciences

DOI

10.1016/j.langsci.2010.09.003

ISSN

0388-0001

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

School

School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86368

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Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

This article presents a historical account of the role and function in linguistic theorising of the concepts “native speaker” and “mother tongue”, and serves to introduce a number of articles (Language Sciences vol. 32 no. 6) raising questions about various aspects of the idealised monolingualism that underlies much modern linguistics.