LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 11 November 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

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Patterns of Code Switching in Children

Mili Mary Mathew, M.Sc. Speech Language Pathology

Abstract

Two types of code switching have been recognized by most researchers: Intra-sentential code switching used for switches within sentences, and inter-sentential code switching for switches between sentences (Schmitt, 2004). India being a country with a rich merge of different languages, essentially most children across the country are exposed to two or more languages. Depending on the socioeconomic status and geographical location, children can be either sequential or simultaneous bilinguals or multi-linguals. Since inter-sentential and intra-sentential patterns of code switching are used by proficient adult speakers, it is necessary to see if the same patterns are seen in children also. 8 children, 4 males and 4 females within the age range of 14-16 years participated in the study. They were instructed to describe a picture, depicting a farm, in two languages Kannada and English separately. The result revealed that code switching to English was present in all the participants (13 %), while speaking in Kannada. All the participants showed only intra-sentential switch. The location of the switch was on semantic structures, namely concrete nouns and action words. It was concluded that the patterns of code switching in the studied children were not similar to previous accounts on children and adults from other linguistic backgrounds

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In many situations of languages in contact, constituents of one language can be found with the constituents of another language in a number of linguistic phenomena, namely lexical borrowing, transferring, interference, calquing, diffusion, reflexification, code switching/mixing, etc. (Annamalai 1989). Code switching and code mixing are the two linguistic phenomena claimed to be the most prevalent and common modes of interaction among bilingual speakers.

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Mili Mary Mathew, M.Sc. Speech Language Pathology
Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology
Kasturba Medical College
Manipal University
Light House Hill Road
Mangalore 575001
Karnataka
India
mili.mathew@manipal.edu
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