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Grammatical Constraints on Code-Mixing: Evidence from Hindi-English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Rajendra Singh*
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal

Extract

Paradis (1980:501) observes that

bilingual language switching has been studied from many angles. Linguistic studies have investigated where in the sentence a switch is more likely to occur, whether within or between constituents, for instance. Social psychologists have probed the reason why a bilingual is likely to switch between languages. Sociolinguistic studies, by far the most numerous, have looked into the external social conditions that control when switches are likely to occur. How bilinguals are able to keep their languages apart and are able to switch from one to the other has been the subject of investigation of psycholinguistic studies, and the neurolinguist has asked what brain mechanisms are responsible for the switching.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1985

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