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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticKurdylo, Kevin
Title, AnalyticLecture Report: How Fast Did German Immigrants Learn English?
Journal TitleMax Kade Institute Friends Newsletter
Date of PublicationSpring 2007
Volume ID16
Issue ID1
Location in Work15
AbstractMiranda Wilkerson and Joseph Salmons presented findings from their study of the 1910 U.S. census (the first to record whether residents could speak English), Wisconsin court records, articles in the state's German-language newspapers, and portrayals in German-language literature from around the same period to show that in many Wisconsin communities there were substantial numbers of monolingual spaekers of German well into the 20th century, often decades after immigration to those locations had ceased.
Call NumberMKI Periodicals
MKI TermsGerman Americans -- Wisconsin/ Language, German (US)/ Language loss/ Language maintenance