Download or read book Language Acquisition and Contact in the Iberian Peninsula written by Alejandro Cuza and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish language is spoken by an estimated 477 million people worldwide. This volume focuses on the contact between Spanish and other language varieties, including Catalan, Portuguese and Galician in the Spanish Peninsula. The book explores the characteristics of such language contact situations from structural, developmental, societal and cognitive perspectives.