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Constraints on Language Mixing: Intrasentential Code-Switching and Borrowing in Spanish/English
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The authors found that structural conflict plays a key role, so that lexical cores trigger longer phrasal switches if they govern rules which create non-shared surface structures, and the relative frequency of mixes without structural conflict is constrained by discourse function.Abstract:
Mixture of Spanish and English, whether in isolated loan words or in codeswitching of clauses and sentences, while socially motivated, is subject to clear linguistic constraints. Quantitative analysis of mixing in conversations of MexicanAmericans suggests specific functional constraints to express tense/aspect/mood and subject/object relationships, as well as structural constraints which permit only surface structures which are grammatical in both languages. Resolution of structural conflict plays a key role, so that lexical cores trigger longer phrasal switches if they govern rules which create non-shared surface structures. The relative frequency of mixes without structural conflict is constrained by discourse function.*read more
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TL;DR: In this article, the formal and functional properties of code-switching among Mexican-American children are examined and two formal types of code switching, code-mixing and code-changing, are identified and developmental patterns in their use are discussed.
Aspects of code-switching in the discourse of bilingual Mexican-American children
TL;DR: In this paper, the formal and functional properties of code-switching among Mexican-American children are examined and two formal types of code switching, code-mixing and code-changing, are identified and developmental patterns in their use are discussed.