Explaining the Diversity in Malay-English Code-Switching Patterns: The Contribution of Typological Similarity and Bilingual Optimization Strategies

Explaining the Diversity in Malay-English Code-Switching Patterns: The Contribution of Typological Similarity and Bilingual Optimization Strategies

Bilingual speakers often engage in code-switching, that is the use of lexical items and grammatical features from two languages in one sentence. Malaysia is a particularly interesting context for the study of code-switching because Malay-English code-switching is widely practiced across formal and i...

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Main Authors: Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Sheikha Majid, Yap Ngee Thai, Naomi Flynn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-11-01
Series:Languages
Subjects:
code-switching
codemixing
English
Malay
bilingual
congruent lexicalization
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/4/299

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