Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: Advances in Korean psycholinguistics
- Part I Language acquisition
- 1 Acquisition of the subject and topic nominals and markers in the spontaneous speech of young children in Korean
- 2 The acquisition of argument structure and transitivity in Korean: a discourse-functional approach
- 3 Acquisition of case markers and grammatical functions
- 4 Do Korean children acquire verbs earlier than nouns?
- 5 The acquisition of the placement of the verb in the clause structure of Korean
- 6 Learning locative verb syntax: a crosslinguistic experimental study
- 7 Language-specific spatial semantics and cognition: developmental patterns in English and Korean
- 8 Acquisition of negation in Korean
- 9 The acquisition of Korean numeral classifiers
- 10 Acquisition of Korean reflexive anaphora
- 11 The Korean relative clause: issues of processing and acquisition
- 12 The accessibility hierarchy in Korean: head-external and head-internal relative clauses
- 13 Development of functional categories in child Korean
- 14 The acquisition of modality
- 15 The syntax of overmarking and kes in child Korean
- 16 Events in passive development
- 17 Universal quantification in child grammar
- 18 Acquisition of prosody in Korean
- 19 Korean as a heritage language
- 20 Maturational effects on L2 acquisition
- 21 L2 acquisition of English articles by Korean speakers
- 22 The acquisition of wanna contraction by adult Korean learners of English
- 23 Phonological abilities of Korean–English bilinguals
- 24 Parameters on languages in contact: an altered view of codeswitching
- 25 Influence of socio-psychological categories in bilingual interaction
- 26 Ontological concept versus shape in word learning from a crosslinguistic point of view
- 27 Notes on Korean Sign Language
- Part II Language processing
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
24 - Parameters on languages in contact: an altered view of codeswitching
from Part I - Language acquisition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: Advances in Korean psycholinguistics
- Part I Language acquisition
- 1 Acquisition of the subject and topic nominals and markers in the spontaneous speech of young children in Korean
- 2 The acquisition of argument structure and transitivity in Korean: a discourse-functional approach
- 3 Acquisition of case markers and grammatical functions
- 4 Do Korean children acquire verbs earlier than nouns?
- 5 The acquisition of the placement of the verb in the clause structure of Korean
- 6 Learning locative verb syntax: a crosslinguistic experimental study
- 7 Language-specific spatial semantics and cognition: developmental patterns in English and Korean
- 8 Acquisition of negation in Korean
- 9 The acquisition of Korean numeral classifiers
- 10 Acquisition of Korean reflexive anaphora
- 11 The Korean relative clause: issues of processing and acquisition
- 12 The accessibility hierarchy in Korean: head-external and head-internal relative clauses
- 13 Development of functional categories in child Korean
- 14 The acquisition of modality
- 15 The syntax of overmarking and kes in child Korean
- 16 Events in passive development
- 17 Universal quantification in child grammar
- 18 Acquisition of prosody in Korean
- 19 Korean as a heritage language
- 20 Maturational effects on L2 acquisition
- 21 L2 acquisition of English articles by Korean speakers
- 22 The acquisition of wanna contraction by adult Korean learners of English
- 23 Phonological abilities of Korean–English bilinguals
- 24 Parameters on languages in contact: an altered view of codeswitching
- 25 Influence of socio-psychological categories in bilingual interaction
- 26 Ontological concept versus shape in word learning from a crosslinguistic point of view
- 27 Notes on Korean Sign Language
- Part II Language processing
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
Summary
Introduction
It has been widely observed that when bilinguals converse with each other, they consciously or subconsciously engage in codeswitching, defined here broadly as an alternation of two languages within the same sentence/utterance or across sentences. It is a highly sophisticated process, capable of linguistic description, and also understandable in social and psychological terms.
For several decades, this phenomenon has been extensively studied from diverse linguistic perspectives. Micro-sociolinguistic studies have investigated the social function of switching by examining the whole conversation in one context (e.g. Scotton & Ury, 1977), and by viewing switches of all types that occur within a conversation as ways of realizing various conversational strategies (e.g. Gumperz, 1982a). Macro-level studies have analyzed switches as whole discourses in relation to societal motivations and demographic variables (e.g. Poplack, 1988), and dynamics of community intergroup relations (e.g. Wei, 1994). Morpho-syntactic studies (e.g. Mahootian & Santorini, 1996) have sought universal rules which govern switching within a single sentence.
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- The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics , pp. 331 - 343Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009