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Rubin, Edward J.; And Others – World Englishes, 1996
Examines the simultaneous development of two linguistic competences in the bilingual child. Special attention is devoted to the role of functional categories in the development patterns attested, and a position is taken that is intermediate between two hypotheses: the strong hypothesis and the weak hypothesis. Childhood bilingualism is viewed as a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Infants, Language Acquisition

Naval, Uday C. – World Englishes, 1989
Discusses the seed concepts constraint (SCC) principle, which suggests that the seed concepts in the intrasententially code-switched speech of the bilingual are marked in the phonetics of the first language in contradistinction to the second language. It is suggested that the SCC suffices to replace various particularistic grammatical claims…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis, English