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work_tzcsyfihknfhdibfgn7csue32i	Michael T. Putnam	Multilingualism in the Midwest: How German Has Shaped (and Still Shapes) the Midwest	2015	25	.pdf	application/pdf	9023	641	58	First, two persistent myths about Germans are that immigrants learned English quickly after arrival and that "antiGerman sentiment" in the World War I era meant the end of the German language in the is, German speakers becoming bilingual in English); and (2) the abandonment of the immigrant language (that is, GermanEnglish communities becoming English monolingual over time, with bilingual parents raising their children as English monolinguals), a process that specialists call Warren's theory of a "Great Change" in American community structure.11 Previous works tended to see language shift in terms That is, the presence of immigrant languages (and English infl uenced by German) likely delayed the onset of new dialect formation. 8. Benjamin Frey, "Towards a General Theory of Language Shift: A Case Study in Wisconsin German and North Carolina Cherokee" (Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin– American Regional English," in The German Language in America, ed.	./cache/work_tzcsyfihknfhdibfgn7csue32i.pdf	./txt/work_tzcsyfihknfhdibfgn7csue32i.txt