A psycholinguistic interpretation of codeswitching: Evidence from fluent Greek-English bilingual adults.  

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Garman, Michael ; Karousou-Fokas, Regina

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 5 no. 1 (Mar. 2001), page 39-69.
Topik: bilingual speech production; codeswitching; Greek-English
Fulltext: International Journal of Bilingualism 2001 5.1. 39-69.pdf (364.59KB)

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Recent research on psycholinguistic aspects of bilingual production has been aimed at general modeling issues (De Bot & Schreuder, 1993), control of processing (Green, 1993), and the formulation of output (Azuma, 1993; Myers -Scotton, 1993). In the latter approach, codeswitching, henceforth ‘CS’ has been an important source of evidence, on the concept of a “base” language, and the claim that closed class words do not codeswitch. The present study provides further evidence on these and related issues drawn from a previously untapped source of bilingual performance involving Greek - English conversational data. We propose that a useful line of research is opened up by the assumption that CS is revealing of linguistic units that are planned in real time during the production process. We present a methodology for the systematic observation of CS distribution in our corpus, based on a range of defined units of discourse organization including the turn and different types of units within the turn, down to the level of the word. CS is found not to occur within word unit boundaries.

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