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From Codeswitching via Language Mixing to Fused Lects: Toward a Dynamic Typology of Bilingual Speech.
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Auer, Peter – International Journal of Bilingualism, 1999
Discusses a continuum of language alternation phenomena that spans between the prototypes labeled codeswitching (CS), language mixing (LM), and fused lects (FLs), with CS and FLs representing the polar extremes of the continuum and LM a point in between. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Language Typology, Language Variation
Insertional Codeswitching in an Immigrant Language: "Just Borrowing or Lexical Re-orientation?
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Backus, Ad – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2000
Explores the usefulness of a typology of contact mechanisms for one type of contact setting: that of a typical immigrant language, in this case the variety of Turkish that is spoken in the Netherlands. Examines the relevance of insertional code switching to the genesis of mixed languages--Dutch and Turkish. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Processes, Dutch