A crosslinguistic study of child code-switching within the noun phrase: A usage-based perspective
Dorota G, Bailleul O, Werner AM, Endesfelder Quick A (2021)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2021
Journal
Book Volume: 6
Pages Range: 1-18
Article Number: 29
Journal Issue: 1
Abstract
This paper aims to investigate whether language use can account for the differences in code-switching within the article-noun phrase in children exposed to English and German, French and Russian, and English and Polish. It investigates two aspects of language use: equivalence and segmentation. Four children’s speech is derived from corpora of naturalistic interactions recorded between the ages of two and three and used as a source of the children’s article-noun phrases. We demonstrate that children’s CS cannot be fully explained by structural equivalence in each two languages: there is CS in French-Russian although French does, and Russian does not, use articles. We also demonstrate that language pairs which use higher numbers of articles types, and therefore have more segmented article-noun phrases, are also more open to switching. Lastly, we show that longitudinal use of monolingual articles-noun phrases corresponds with the trends in the use of bilingual article-noun phrases. The German-English child only starts to mix English articles once they become more established in monolingual combinations while the French-Russian child ceases to mix French proto-articles with Russian nouns once target articles enter frequent use. These findings are discussed in the context of other studies which report code-switching across different language pairs.
Involved external institutions
King’s College London
United Kingdom (GB)
University of Rouen / Université de Rouen
France (FR)
Universität Leipzig
Germany (DE)
United Kingdom (GB)
University of Rouen / Université de Rouen
France (FR)
Universität Leipzig
Germany (DE)
How to cite
APA:
Dorota, G., Bailleul, O., Werner, A.M., & Endesfelder Quick, A. (2021). A crosslinguistic study of child code-switching within the noun phrase: A usage-based perspective. Languages, 6(1), 1-18. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages6010029
MLA:
Dorota, Gaskins, et al. "A crosslinguistic study of child code-switching within the noun phrase: A usage-based perspective." Languages 6.1 (2021): 1-18.
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