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A Crosslinguistic Study of Child Code-Switching within the Noun Phrase: A Usage-Based Perspective
| Content Provider | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Author | Gaskins, Dorota Bailleul, Oksana Werner, Anne Marie Quick, Antje Endesfelder |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | 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. |
| Starting Page | 29 |
| e-ISSN | 2226471X |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages6010029 |
| Journal | Languages |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 6 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2021-02-13 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Languages Language Studies Child Code-switching Noun Phrase Equivalence Segmentation |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
