@incollection{Stolberg2018, author = {Stolberg, Doris}, title = {Language shift in slow motion: evidence from German-Canadian family papers}, booktitle = {Selected Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 8)}, editor = {Heeg{\aa}rd Petersen, Jan and K{\"u}hl, Karoline}, isbn = {978-1-57473-473-7}, url = {http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wila/8/abstract3436.html}, pages = {96 -- 102}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Language shift after migration has been reported to occur within three generations. While this pattern holds in many cases there is also some counter evidence. In this paper, family documents from a German immigration community in Canada are investigated to trace individual decisions of language choice that contributed to an extended process of shift taking four generations and more than a century.}, subject = {Migration}, language = {en} }