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What is ‘Spanglish’? The phenomenon of Spanish in the US. Mixing (CODE-SWITCHING) of Spanish and English. Features of code-switching: • Characteristic of bilinguals, not monolinguals • Pragmatically determined by A switch does not take place within a word subject-matter unless the word is actually a borrowing: *run+eando is unacceptable because there is no speaker attitudeverb *runear. AUDIENCE DESIGN The order of the elements before and after the switch must be grammatical in both languages: • Formally determined by el siguiente play is acceptable but *la pared red is not. the FREE MORPHEME CONSTRAINT the EQUIVALENCE CONSTRAINT 2 What is Spanglish?
What is ‘Spanglish’? The phenomenon of Spanish in the US. Mixing (CODE-SWITCHING) of Spanish and English. Features of code-switching: 2 What is Spanglish? • Preferred code-switched elements: nouns and noun phrases are more favoured than auxiliaries, determiners, prepositions or conjunctions. • It is not possible to predict when a code-switch will take place because it is pragmatically determined although syntactically constrained.
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