Code-switching in Early Bilinguals: Case study of English-Catalan bilingual children living in Taiwan

Oliver Pallàs, Nerea

Code-switching in Early Bilinguals: Case study of English-Catalan bilingual children living in Taiwan

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Oliver Pallàs, N. Code-switching in Early Bilinguals: Case study of English-Catalan bilingual children living in Taiwan. 2021. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/48638

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This study investigates the use of code-switching by three English-Catalan bilingual children aged: 11, 8, 5, who were born and are currently living in Taiwan. Through recordings of natural speech samples in different communicative contexts provided by their parents, which have been manually transcribed and coded, this study aims to analyse which language predominates in their oral production, and whether the change of interlocutor determines their use of one language or the other. It also seeks to analyse what patterns of code-switching can be observed in their productions, and whether age is a factor in determining the amount or type of code-switching that occurs. The results showed that English is the most dominant language in their oral production, and that the interlocutors they address may influence their choice of one language or the other. In addition, it was found that the patterns of code-switching that occur the most are alternation and insertion, and that intra-sentential code-switching occurs more frequently than inter-sentential code-switching. However, age has not been shown to be a determining factor influencing the amount and type of coding alternation, but other factors may play a role.