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Linguistic homogamy allows the transmission of a couples non-English language to the younger generation and thus plays a key role in the persistence of non-English language groups in the US. Like other kinds of assortative marriage linguistic homogamy is influenced by the prevailing demographic opportunities for people to meet and marry persons with similar language characteristics. This paper examines linguistic and educational marriage patterns for native-born Americans in 6 language groups while controlling for the populations age sex educational and linguistic composition. The results 1st show that linguistic homogamy is more pronounced for men and women of lower educational statuses and that education is more salient than language in marriage choices for French German Italian and Polish language Americans. Further analysis shows that the common pattern of educational hypergamy in which women marry men with higher educational statuses than themselves is more pronounced in cross-language marriages involving English language women than in those involving English language men suggesting an exchange between mens economic and womens non-economic characteristics. (authors)
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