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- Title
Code-switching in the speech of a balanced infant bilingual and early talker.
- Authors
Coutsougera, Photini
- Abstract
This case study investigates codeswitching in infant bilingualism and may be of special interest due to the fact that its participant is an early talker and a balanced bilingual. Drawing on English/Greek child data, it studies the relationship between language competence and type of code-switching from a developmental perspective, and aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of code-switching in infant bilinguals. Code-switching was facilitated by an early onset of syntax and is interpreted as an outcome of the child's growing grammatical and pragmatic competence, rather than of a lack of linguistic resources. The rich set of longitudinal data features situational, discourse-related and participant-related code-switching events, as well as rare contextualisation examples. Code-switching is observed to be a strategy to attain specific communicative goals, such as disambiguation, clarification, disagreement etc., and is constrained by the grammar of English and Greek and the principles of discourse and language use.
- Subjects
SPEECH; CODE switching (Linguistics); INFANTS; ENGLISH grammar; BILINGUALISM
- Publication
Journal of Monolingual & Bilingual Speech (JMBS), 2024, Vol 6, Issue 1, p44
- ISSN
2631-8407
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1558/jmbs.22392