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Frontiers in Psychology
Syntactic mixing across generations in an environment of community-wide bilingualism
Sabine Stoll1 
关键词: code-switching;    bilingualism;    language mixing;    language acquisition;    language contact;    Chintang;    Nepali;   
DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00082
学科分类:心理学(综合)
来源: Frontiers
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【 摘 要 】

A quantitative analysis of a trans-generational, conversational corpus of Chintang (Tibeto-Burman) speakers with community-wide bilingualism in Nepali (Indo-European) reveals that children show more code-switching into Nepali than older speakers. This confirms earlier proposals in the literature that code-switching in bilingual children decreases when they gain proficiency in their dominant language, especially in vocabulary. Contradicting expectations from other studies, our corpus data also reveal that for adults, multi-word insertions of Nepali into Chintang are just as likely to undergo full syntactic integration as single-word insertions. Speakers of younger generations show less syntactic integration. We propose that this reflects a change between generations, from strongly asymmetrical, Chintang-dominated bilingualism in older generations to more balanced bilingualism where Chintang and Nepali operate as clearly separate systems in younger generations. This change is likely to have been triggered by the increase of Nepali presence over the past few decades.

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