This paper introduces and discusses Occitan sociolinguistics as it evolved from the 1970s onward a theory of language contact conflict. It was developed in conjunction with its Catalan counterpart reaction to Joshua Fishman's allocational model diglossia, came response conditions swift social linguistic change Southern France after Second World War. model, proposed mainly at first by Robèrt Laf...

This paper presents the first systematic examination of the monolingual and bilingual frequency effect (FE) during natural reading. We analyzed single fixations durations on content words for participants reading an entire novel. Unbalanced bilinguals and monolinguals show a similarly sized FE in their mother tongue (L1), but for bilinguals the FE is considerably larger in their second language...