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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"language mixing"”.
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Language Contact Phenomena among Algerian University Students
… created an important context in which different languages and structures can be used in the same conversations. This research investigates the practice of language contact phenomena within social media using Facebook as the main platform, and also within face-to-face interaction among Algerian …
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Language-switching cost in Chinese-English bilingual reading comprehension: Evidence from eye-tracking
Code-switching, or language-switching, which is the use of elements from two or more languages in the same utterance or in the same stretch of conversation (Paradis et al., 2011), is prevalent among bilingual and multilingual speakers. According to the parallel activation hypothesis of language …
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Contextual effects of varying amounts of language-mixed text on translation and comprehension by monolinguals and bilinguals
… and factual comprehension questions based on language-mixed prose. Language-mixed (i.e., codeswitched) prose varied in the number of foreign words presented in each sentence (i.e., 0, 1, 2, or 3 words per sentence). Results indicated that Monolinguals and Bilinguals' ability to translate …
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Language and dementia in bilingual settings : evidence from two case studies
… linguistic consequences of cognitive decline on language in English-Afrikaans co-ordinate bilinguals with AD by monitoring the changes in these linguistic outcomes after three months, and to see whether the two languaes are affected by AD in a comparable way. The impact of conversational …
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"C'est either que tu parles francais, c'est either que tu parles anglais": A cognitive approach to Chiac as a contact language
… urban environment and their attitudes toward the languages spoken in Moncton resulted in speakers sharing a sense of identity and wanting to distinguish themselves from other social groups. Within the framework of Cognitive Grammar (CG) I model the emergence of Chiac due to these social factors. …
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Refracted Communications: Multilingualism and (Im)Purity in the Works of Maria-Mercè Marçal and Julia Fiedorczuk
… will not only refer to the presence of multiple languages in a literary text, but also to translation; it also means a mixing of dialects and argots with the normative versions of Polish and Catalan and includes the mixing of different symbolic structures that regulate communication, such as the …
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Finanzamt and Termins in Hamburg
… speech, with a particular focus on second-language (L2) speakers of Ger-man. Drawing on multiple episodes of a podcast focused on life as a foreign woman in Germany featuring two multilingual speakers, the study examines instances where German lexical items or phrases are embedded within …