English-Japanese Code-switching and Formulaic Language
Kazuhiko Namba
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English-Japanese Code-switching and Formulaic Language

A Structural Approach to Bilingual Children¿s Interactions

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This book seeks to identify the structural processing which underlies code-switching (CS) through the analysis of naturalistic data collected from two English and Japanese speaking siblings. In bilingual interaction, alternating between two languages, even within sentences, is a common phenomenon. When CS occurs, how do the grammars of the two languages influence each other? The data from this longitudinal case study is analyzed using the Matrix Language Frame Model along with the frameworks of alternation and formulaic language. This hybrid structural approach opens a window to language proce...