east asian language study

Latecomers’ Usage of the [ɹ] Sound and Identity Construction

Bingbing Liu, Kejia Zhang, Nina Cai, Ze Ning, Zehao Yao Recent sociolinguistic studies show interests in exploring people’s language practices and their corresponding social influences. In China, the rapid development of the society has attracted more and more people immigrating from the countryside to the city. Beijing, one of the most prosperous cities in China, […]

east asian language study, identity, interviews, rhotacization, sociolinguistics

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Testing the Matrix Language Frame (MLF) Hypothesis with Modern East Asian language-English Bilingual Speakers of Code Switching – Insertion & Alternation

Sociolinguistics

Hyung Joon (Joe) Kim, Mocha Ito, Irene Han, Sena Ji, Luis Flores Our study tests the validity of the Myers-Scotton’s (1993) Matrix Language Frame (MLF) hypothesis in light of modern Japanese-English and Korean-English bilingual speakers’ code-switching data (Myers-Scotton & Jake, 2009). Code-switching (CS) is the umbrella term for the use of more than one code,

alternation, bilingualism, Code-Switching, east asian language study, insertion, matrix language frame

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