Making a Minimalist Approach to Codeswitching Work: Adding the Matrix Language.

Jake, Janice L.; Myers-Scotton, Carol; Gross, Steven

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ERIC Number: EJ645372

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2002

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Making a Minimalist Approach to Codeswitching Work: Adding the Matrix Language.

Jake, Janice L.; Myers-Scotton, Carol; Gross, Steven

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, v5 n1 p69-91 Apr 2002

Discusses the Matrix Language Frame model. Analysis of noun phrases in a Spanish-English corpus illustrates this compatibility and shows how recent minimalist proposals can explain the distribution of nouns and determiners in the data if they adopt the notion of matrix language as bilingual instantiation of structural uniformity in a CP. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Spanish

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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