Code-switching (CS) is central to many bilingual
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Code-switching (CS) is central to many bilingual communities and, though linguistic and sociolinguistic research has characterised different types of code-switches (alternations, insertions, dense CS), the cognitive control processes (CPs)
Evidence profile
Sourced from the abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 1989 and 2014, spanning 2 journals. Those papers have been cited 287 times in total.
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Established — well-defined area with open sub-problems.
Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Code switching and code mixing as a communicative strategy in multilingual discourse (1989) · World Englishes · cited 54× · doi
ABSTRACT: While the formal characteristics of codes switching and mixing, such as free morpheme constraints and equivalence constraints, have been well documented accross aa varity of languages, relatively little is known about how codw switching and mixing are used as communicative strategies in a multilingual community.
generalabstractevidence 5/5Keywords: switching mixing constraints abstract formal characteristics codes free morpheme equivalence well documented accross varity languages - Chinese‐English code‐mixing: a case of matrix language assignment (1991) · World Englishes · cited 18× · doi
ABSTRACT: While it has been shown that bilingual code‐mixing (CM) is not random and that there exist rules that determine what code‐mixes are or are not allowed in bilingual speech, it has not been established yet whether the rules in question ‘come’ predominantly from one language, the matrix language, or whether they are evenly contributed by each of the languages participating in CM.
generalabstractevidence 5/5Keywords: bilingual code rules whether language abstract mixing random there exist determine mixes allowed speech established - A control process model of code-switching (2014) · Language Cognition and Neuroscience · cited 215× · doi
Code-switching (CS) is central to many bilingual communities and, though linguistic and sociolinguistic research has characterised different types of code-switches (alternations, insertions, dense CS), the cognitive control processes (CPs) that mediate them are not well understood.
generalabstractevidence 5/5Keywords: code switching central bilingual communities though linguistic sociolinguistic characterised different types switches alternations insertions dense
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