A Developmental Perspective on Codeswitching: Conversations Between a Pair of Bilingual Siblings  

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Vihman, Marilyn May

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 2 no. 1 (Mar. 1998), halaman 45-84.
Topik: bilingual siblings; code switching; estonian
Fulltext: 45-84.pdf (2,39MB)

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This study addrcsscs the broader question of social motivation for codeswitching (CS) as \re11 as the more narrowly linguistic question of structural constraints, based on six recordings of conversations between a pair of bilingual siblings over a period of four years (ages 2;s to 6;7 and 5 ; 1 1 to 9; 10). Unmarked CS, emblematic of the children’s dual identity as members of an Estonian family and an Englishspeaking community, is found to characterize their interactions, with a shift from minimal intrasentential CS in thc first recording (3%), n.hich has a roughly even balance of English and Estonian turns for both siblings, to a mean of 12% CS in the conversations nhich are largely in Estonian. The linguistic constraints formulated in the hlatrix Language Frame model are observed, on the \\hole; violations not found in adult CS, such as the inclusion of system morphemes from the embedded language with grammatical agrrement in the matrix language, are also observed but are rare.

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