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This 10 page paper provides an overview of the use of code-switching data, and determines the extent that grammatical constraints proposed by Poplack and others work. This paper considers whether it is possible to identify trigger words and how code-switching fits into Carol Myers-Scotton's Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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speakers to demonstrate the use of mixed languages, and code-switching, or intrasential manifestations of mixed language, is the most widely reported (Poplack, 2001). Understanding the basis of code-switching through
an assessment of data, much of which is related by Poplack, provides a basis for assessing the possible identifiable trigger words or elements in mixed language communications. Further, there
is also evidence that suggests that code-switching, or what Myers-Scotton describes as "dueling languages," occurs relative to contextual factors and specific grammatical elements. Mixed Language Examples
The following are two examples offered by Shana Poplack (2001), which demonstrates the two different ways that mixed language occurs, either deliberately or intra-sententially: (1) Il a
dit que des fois l?, quand il marchait l?, il marchait over dead bodies. (2) Il dit, tu as vingt-quatre ans, je peux pas te kicker dehors. These
examples demonstrate the controversial nature of manifestation of "code-switching within the confines of the sentence, involving the juxtaposition of multiword fragments of one language with those of another" (Poplack, 2001).
This is demonstrated by the first example, in which the sentence is concluded by a multiword phrase or fragment that is in English, rather than French. The second
example demonstrates a greater focus on the intra-sentential nature of code-switching, in which the speaker borrows or integrates single words from one language and applies them while speaking the other
(Poplack, 2001). One of the central issues related in this example and in subsequent examples that will be presented is that different processes occur when borrowing elements
of a language and in code-switching, that must be assessed relative to the function of language. For example, when an English speaker uses a phrase like "cest la vie,"
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