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The Diaspora of Bilinguals: Code-Switching in Three Groups of Cantonese-English Bilinguals
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Chan, Ariel Shuk Ling – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines the linguistic behavior of code-switching in three groups of highly proficient Cantonese-English bilinguals. Code-switching refers to alternating between two or more languages within the same sentence or between two sentences. While traditional research on bilingualism often compares bilingual speakers against…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning
Switching Ability in Bilinguals Following Multitasking: Impact of Language Distance
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Aidin Tajbakhsh – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Cognitive flexibility (switching) and control (inhibition) are among widely accepted cognitive advantages of bilingualism. Switch Cost (SC), i.e., the time difference to complete a switch versus non-switch task, is a construct for measuring the switching ability. The need to control the interference and switching between one's languages leads to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
Methodological, Linguistic, and Social Effects in Language Alternation: Evidence from Voice Onset Time in Spanish-English Bilinguals
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Ernesto R. Gutierrez Topete – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In phonetics research, language alternation--including code switching (speaker-initiated) and cued switching (researcher-prompted)--can be used as a tool to investigate various aspects of speech production and perception in bilingual or multilingual speakers (Bullock & Toribio, 2009a). Studies on the production of voice onset time (VOT) during…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingualism, Spanish
Language Representations in the Presence of a Lexical-Functional Split: An Experimental Approach Targeting the Quichua-Media Lengua-Spanish Interface
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Isabel Deibel – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Mixed languages like Media Lengua incorporate grammar from one source language (here, Quichua) but lexicon from another (here, Spanish). Due to their linguistic profile, they provide a unique window into bilingual language usage and language representation. Drawing on sociolinguistic, structural and psycholinguistic perspectives, the current…
Descriptors: Spanish, American Indian Languages, Code Switching (Language), Task Analysis
Sociolinguistic Variation in Practice: An Ethnographic Study of Stylistic Variation and Social Meaning in the Chicano English of 'El Barrio'
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Isla Flores-Bayer – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Because language, as a method of communication, is a two-way channel involving both speakers and listeners, a methodical study of linguistic variation should involve an analysis of both, how it is expressed and how it is interpreted. Furthermore, because language is known to vary between individuals (inter-speaker variation) as well as at the…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Language Styles, Audio Equipment
A Study of the Relationship between Code Switching and the Bilingual Advantage: Evidence That Language Use Modulates Neural Indices of Language Processing and Cognitive Control
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Blackburn, Angelique Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Bilinguals sometimes outperform age-matched monolinguals on non-language tasks involving cognitive control. But the bilingual advantage is not consistently found in every experiment and may reflect specific attributes of the bilinguals tested. The goal of this dissertation was to determine if the way in which bilinguals use language, specifically…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Interference (Language), Cognitive Ability