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Inter and intrasentential code switching among late bilinguals
This study investigates intersentential and intrasentential code switching among late bilinguals among the Kurdish bilinguals. enormous studies have been conducted on the impact of age of language acquisition on learning second language, however a ...
Barzan Jaafar Ali
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Toward an Aposynthesis of Topic Continuity and Intrasentential Anaphora
The problem of proposing referents for anaphoric expressions has been extensively researched in the literature and significant insights have been gained through the various approaches. However, no single model is capable of handling all the cases. We argue that this is due to a failure of the models to identify two distinct processes.
Eleni Miltsakaki
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Another look at the interpretation of overt and null pronominal subjects in bilingual language acquisition: Heritage Portuguese in contact with German and Spanish [PDF]
This paper investigates the interpretation of overt and null subject pronouns in the heritage language (European Portuguese, EP) of Portuguese heritage bilinguals (children and teenagers) in Germany and Andorra with German (Ger) and Spanish/Catalan (Span/
Cristina Flores, Esther Rinke
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Code switching is a sociolinguistic phenomenon that is found wherever two or more language varieties are used in a speech community. Bilingual or multilingual speakers who speak two or more language varieties often switch fluently between these ...
Van Gass, Kate
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Since the 1970s, the phenomenon of code switching has been studied from a variety of theoretical perspectives. From a structuralist perspective, the most important question arising from this extensive study of code switching concerns the nature of the ...
Van Dulm, Ondene
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The effect of lexical triggers on Spanish-English code-switched judgment tasks [PDF]
IntroductionIt has been argued that certain words can “trigger” intrasentential code-switching. While some researchers suggest that cognates establish triggering at the lexical level, others have argued that words that lack direct translations are more ...
Bryan Koronkiewicz, Rodrigo Delgado
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In Support of the Matrix Language Frame Model: Evidence from Igbo-English Intrasentential Codeswitching [PDF]
This paper explores the morphosyntactic features of mixed nominal expressions in a sample of empirical Igbo-English intrasentential codeswitching data (i.e. codeswitching within a bilingual clause) in terms of the Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model. Since
Abney S. +19 more
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The linguistic reality in Bamako, Mali, has made it commonplace that most interactions are performed in a language combining Bambara and French. The reason is certainly that Bamako, as some researchers suggest, is an ethnic and linguistic melting pot ...
Boubacar Bocoum
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Igbo-English intrasentential codeswitching and the Matrix Language Frame model [PDF]
This paper uses data from Igbo-English intrasentential codeswitching involving mixed nominal expressions to test the Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model.
Ahland, Colleen +39 more
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Shaving Bridges and Tuning Kitaraa: The Effect of Language Switching on Semantic Processing [PDF]
Language switching has been repeatedly found to be costly. Yet, there are reasons to believe that switches in language might benefit language comprehension in some groups of people, such as less proficient language learners.
Suzanne C. A. Hut +4 more
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