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Peer reviewedRubin, 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
Peer reviewedBhatt, Rakesh M. – World Englishes, 1996
Explores an Optimality-Theoretic approach to account for observed cross-linguistic patterns of code switching that assumes that code switching strives for well-formedness. Optimization of well-formedness in code switching is shown to follow from (violable) ranked constraints. An argument is advanced that code-switching patterns emerge from…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Typology
Peer reviewedMyers-Scotton, Carol – World Englishes, 1989
Examines a specific type of code switching that occurs when bilingual peers make relevant their dual and simultaneous membership in the two groups symbolized by the two linguistic varieties involved in the switching pattern. Structural constraints and switching are discussed across code-switching types. (31 references) (Author/OD)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis, English
Peer reviewedNewbrook, Mark – World Englishes, 1998
Examines ways in which modern varieties of English around the world differ in eight specific aspects of relative clause formation, focusing on the theoretical implications of some of the phenomena, their likely origins, and possible explanations for cases in which features are shared by apparently unassociated varieties. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedHyrkstedt, Irene; Kalaja, Paula – World Englishes, 1998
Argues for a redefinition of terms and reconsideration of methodology in research on language attitudes, suggesting that mentalistic definitions of attitudes be replaced with social ones and experimentation using the matched-guise technique be replaced by discourse-analytic research. A qualitative study on Finnish college student attitudes toward…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedSvalberg, Agneta M. -L. – World Englishes, 1998
Suggests that the variety of English spoken in Brunei (BNE), sometimes called nonstandard, is still at an early stage of development and there is little awareness among its speakers of some differences from standard English (STE). Results of a grammaticality judgment test administered to 106 university students, designed to find nonstandard verb…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English
