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Download full textSwain, Merrill – 1971
A definition of bilingualism can include speakers of different languages as well as those who speak several dialects or several sub-varieties of dialects in the same language. Most speakers are able to practice code-switching, whether it is from language to language or dialect to dialect, and the processes involved in such a capability may be the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Dialects
