Sociolinguistic factors affecting codeswitches produced by trilingual children  

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Stavans, Anat

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Culture and Curriculum (Full Text) vol. 5 no. 1 (1992), page 41-70.
Fulltext: 5.1.41-53.pdf (772.5KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LCC/5 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The sociolinguistic variables known to affect an adult bilingual's speech, in particular setting, situation and participant, do not have the same effect on the bilingual child's speech. These variables, established in previous research on codeswitching among bilingual adults, are either irrelevant or acquire a different function for the bilingual child. The present study examines switches produced in spontaneous speech over a period of 15 months by two trilingual children acquiring Hebrew, Spanish and English. Data collection began when the older subject was 5:5 years old and the younger subject was 2:6 years old. The switches were analysis both grammatically and according to specific sociolinguistic features. The analysis shows that (a) the participant's linguistic background (Le. monolingual, bilingual or trilingual) influences the quantity and type of switches; (b) the topic-related switches are culture-bound; and (c) the situation of the switches basically refers to discourse routines, such as requests, affirmations and negations.

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