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(雪 It is not surpriSing 人 our native 1anguage iS Often referred to aS Our
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emother tongue,”a term hat/recalls our earliest memories and influenceS.
The sociolinguist ITove Skutnabb-
The term_-ttself has different ImearlingS.
8 Kangas deb hypothesizes 0 of “mother tongue”depending on
who is defining [For the_sociolgi9k mother tongue jiS the 14nguage One
learns first. | For the linguist it is the janguage one knows best 全or the
sociolinguiet is the language one uses khe- ost. For the social psychologiSt,
th ) ifiesUwi の OUg i js identified. For
_dary in。 writes poetry in (Skutnabb-Kangas, 1981:18) .
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