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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"matrix language"”.
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Korean/English intrasentential code-switching: Matrix language assignment and linguistic constraints
… aspects of intrasentential code-switching, matrix language assignment and linguistic constraints on code-switching, were explored with respect to Korean/English code-switching data collected by means of interviews and acceptability judgment tests.
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The use of Iscamtho by children in white city-Jabavu, Soweto: slang and language contact in an African urban context
The work presented in this thesis relies on language recordings gathered during thirty months of fieldwork in White City-Jabavu, Soweto. The data was collected from children between the ages of two and nine, following anthropological participant observation, and through the use of an audio …
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Style, structure and function in Cape Town Tsotsitaal
… was perceived by many respondents as a language of gangsters and criminals, evidence suggests that it is actually part of an ongoing identity construction for young, black, primarily male urban township residents in South Africa, which is performed through a subcultural style. By …
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Cross-generational linguistic variation in the Canberra Vietnamese heritage language community: A corpus-centred investigation
… a particular focus on Vietnamese as the heritage language. Specifically, it documents the vernacular and considers key aspects of this data from different theoretical perspectives. Its main contribution is an insight into a rarely studied heritage language variety in a contact community that has …
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Code-switching, Structural change and Convergence: A study of Sesotho in contact with English in Lesotho
… and analyses them using Myers-Scotton’s (1993) Matrix Language Frame model and Myers-Scotton and Jake’s (2000) 4-M model. Second, it applies the ML turnover in order to detect convergence in Sesotho-English code-switching data and to observe which direction it takes. The study also explores …
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An analysis of code switching in the Namibian parliament
… was further interpreted using Myers-Scotton’s Matrix Language Frame Model (MLF) and the Markedness Model (MM). Although English is the official language in Namibia, the parliamentarians still make use of other languages in the parliamentary discourse which leads to code switching. Code …
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A comparative study of the Morphosyntaz and Phonetics of Town Bemba and Standard Bemba of the Copperbelt Zambia
… framework has been used in characterising the language variety. TB has been regarded as an urban variety spoken in the townships of the Copperbelt province, Zambia. It had also been perceived as a 'secret language' or 'mixed jargon' used by male migrant workers on the mine, but today, it is …
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Code-Switching among Bilingual Speakers of Cape Muslim Afrikaans and South African English in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
… retained lexis (Mesthrie and Bhatt 2008) from languages historically spoken by slaves at the Cape, such as Malay, Arabic, Gujarati, and Konkani. Over time a number of socio-cultural, geographic, and historical factors have introduced the use of South African English alongside Cape Muslim …
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On the issues of language contact and language shift in Tok Pisin - focusing on two "non-standard" varieties: highlands pidgin and anglicised pidgin.
Tok Pisin is the most prevailing common language in Papua New Guinea. It was originally an English lexifier pidgin language and has developed as the virtual universal lingua franca in this multilingual country where over 850 indigenous languages are spoken today (Nekitel 1998). The term Tok Pisin …
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Vernacular vocabulary in the Durham Account Rolls (1278-1538): a philological approach
… as simultaneously belonging to multiple languages and, in relation to this, abbreviations or suspension marks in lieu of full inflectional Latin suffixes. This dissertation goes one step further: not only does it examine the vernacular vocabulary in multilingual accounts in terms of …
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"I can speak German - und Deutsch" : the development and use of code-switching among simultaneous and successive English-German bilingual children
… basic concepts about bilingualism and bilingual language acquisition, followed by an introduction to various approaches to the study of code-switching. After a brief overview over its history, code-switching is identified as one out of several language contact phenomena. The introduction to the …