1 to come to live permanently in a country that is not your own:
Since many of these men neither knew nor could document their current age or the year when they had immigrated, these estimates were often uncertain.
After all, most of the older speakers immigrated from the rural area.
The barrier is quantified by considering a small group of individuals that immigrate into a genetically distinct recipient population.
For newly immigrated merchants it provided entrance to the right circles.
This age restriction means that foreign-born respondents in the analysis who immigrated before 1950 must have entered the country during infancy.
These studies were crosssectional, and thus described heterogeneous groups, immigrants with varying number of years since immigration, immigrating in different years under different conditions.
Chambers (1992) suggested that people who immigrate to different dialect areas will not show similar acquisition patterns of complex features of a new dialect.
He followed that assertion with a guess that he had been "eighteen or under it" when he immigrated.
