0 the act of changing between two or more languages, dialects (= forms of a language), or accents (= ways of pronouncing words) when you are speaking: --
Every day, minorities engage in the art of code-switching in order to assimilate into the white majority.
Code switching is common among bilinguals in many communities.
This analysis suggests some problems for well-formed examples of code switching after lexical subjects.
A significant number of studies have revealed that intrasentential code switching is not located randomly in the sentence, but, rather, occurs at specific points.
Besides approximation and code switching, substitution processes underlie a third problem-solving device as well-the use of all-purpose-words.
Given the theory of code switching presented here, how does a bilingual's language faculty differ from a monolingual's?
The analysis presented here holds strong predictions for code switching in other language pairs.
This is an important construct particularly when discussing issues of code switching.
The study describes code-switching in a Puerto Rican community in New York's Spanish Harlem.
In such conversations, code switching between Creole and British English will take place.
