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Varietal Conditioning in Japanese/English Code-Switching.
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Nishimura, Miwa – Language Sciences, 1995
Demonstrates that the patterns of Japanese/English code-switching found in Canadian Niseis' in-group speech are conditioned by the varieties of bilingual speech characterized in terms of base language. When Japanese is the base, English nouns are used; when English is the base, Japanese phrases and sentences occur sporadically. (38 references)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Canada Natives, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language)