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Publication details [#9979]

Wentz, Jim and Erica F. McClure. 1977. Monolingual 'codes': Some remarks on the similarities beween bilingual and monolingual code-switching. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 13 : 706–713.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | language universal | monolingualism

Annotation

Some hypotheses are made about universal tendencies of code-mixing and code-switching by speakers who identify elements in their linguistic repertoire as distinct codes, whether these are actual language systems or monolingual 'codes'.