Variation in voice quality has long been recognized to have functions beyond the
grammatically distinctive or phonetically useful roles it plays in many languages, indexing …

It is quite commonplace for bilingual speakers to use two or more languages, dialects or
varieties in the same conversation, without any apparent effort. The phenomenon, known as …

From its origins in the physical sciences (Fano 1950) until its current circulation in political
anthropology (Gal 1987, 1995), the notion of'code-switching'has experienced the …

Dinner Talk draws upon the recorded dinner conversations of, and extensive interviews with,
native Israeli, American Israeli, and Jewish American middle-class families to explore the …

This study examined the code-switching patterns in the speech of immigrant Spanish-
speaking children. Seven-and 10-year-old boys and girls from bilingual classrooms were …

The search for a syntactic constraint on bilingual codeswitching," the use of more than one
language in the course of a single communicative episode"(Heller 1988: 1), has now …

This qualitative study examined code-switching patterns in the writing-related talk of 6
emergent Spanish-English bilingual first-grade children. Audio recordings, field notes, and …

Few changes in the development of individuals are as remarkable as the emergence of
language. It is not surprising, then, that the earliest stages of language acquisition–the …

It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without language. Even if we could visualise
such a state of affairs, our imaginations and thoughts would themselves depend upon the …

In Dominica, rural adults forbid children from speaking Patwa (a French-lexicon creole) in
favor of acquiring English (the official language), contributing to a rapid language shift in …