Contact Linguistics

“…These are the production approaches, the variationist approaches, and the generative approach. The production approaches was initiated by Myer-Scotton (1993/2002. Two prominent theories of this approach are the "Matrix Language Frame' and 'Blocking Hypothesis".…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bullock and Toribio (2012: 1) highlight the importance of Code-Switching to contact linguistics when they observed that "of all the contact phenomenon of interest to researchers and students of bilingualism, code switching has arguably dominated the field". There are several definitions of code-switching and they revolve around the use of two or more languages within one or more utterances (Gardner-Chloros 2011;Poplack 1978/1981) Muysken 2005Myers-Scotton (2002) and Borsley (2011). Contact linguists have also distinguished between code mixing and code switching.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nouns as Lexical Heads in Urhobo English Code-Switching

Oduaran¹

2017

ELR

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Two topics in the front burner of contact linguistics are bilingualism and code switching. Code switching between an indigenous language and the English language is pervasive where outer circle Englishes are spoken. Nigeria and other former colonies of Great Britain belong to this circle of Englishes. This study discusses nouns functioning as lexical heads in Urhobo/ English code switches. The switches include code switched NP with determiners from Urhobo and head words from English; Urhobo -English complex Code switched NP with an adjective; complex CS NP with an adjective prepositional phrase as complement. The study is premised on two theories. First is Noam Chomsky's (1981) principles and parameters theory of transformational grammar which has been used for the analysis of the sentences. The second is Myers-Scotton's (2002) Matrix Language Frame (MLF), which is used for distinguishing between the matrix and the embedded languages in the nominal phrasal constituents within the code switched sentences. In this study, Urhobo is the matrix language while English is the embedded language based on matrix language frame (MLF) parameters. The study concludes that nouns functioning as lexical heads constitute part of the structural basis of Urhobo English code-switching.

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“…There is, on the other hand, a substantial amount of data that shows that within the category of intrasentential switching there exists a hierarchy of frequently switched constituents. In general, nouns and compound nouns are the most frequently switched categories (Appel & Muysken, 1987;Gardner-Chloros, 2009;Muysken, 2000;Myers-Scotton, 1993, 2002Poplack, 1980;Romaine, 1995). It is also widely accepted that CS is not random.…”

Section: An Overview Of Csmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Code-Switching between Arabic and English by Saudis

Ismail

2015

IJEL

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The neglected area of Arab speakers' verbal performance in mixed-sex contexts is the focus of this study. This paper attempts to contribute to this area by studying the frequency and type of code-switches from Arabic into English in the casual conversations of young bilingual Saudis. Findings indicate that Saudi females' style of speech was characterized by substantially more code-switching from Arabic into English particularly single noun and adjective switches than their male counterparts in both single and mixed sex interactions. Women's turn-switches were marked by more linguistic convergence between one another, however they were less inclined to turn-switch to the language of a speaker of the opposite sex. Men's code-switching performance at a turn boundary was overall more inclined towards linguistic divergence. The findings in relation to turn-switching would indicate that although these women and men interacted in mixed-sex settings, they still seemed to adhere to Saudi cultural values that encourage social distance between the sexes. It is argued that underpinning Arab women's and men's code-switching behavior are lingering cultural customs and gendered ideologies of language.

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The Bilingual Lemma Activation Model as a Comparative Approach to Codeswitching

The Bilingual Lemma Activation Model as a Comparative Approach to Codeswitching

Nouns as Lexical Heads in Urhobo English Code-Switching

The Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Code-Switching between Arabic and English by Saudis

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