Languages 2017, 2(3), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages2030009
Code-Switching by Phase
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Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 South Morgan, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
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Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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Academic Editors: Ji Young Shim and Tabea Ihsane
Received: 24 January 2017 / Revised: 9 June 2017 / Accepted: 19 June 2017 / Published: 12 July 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Clausal and Nominal Complements in Monolingual and Bilingual Grammars)
Abstract
We show that the theoretical construct “phase” underlies a number of restrictions on code-switching, in particular those formalized under the Principle of Functional Restriction (González-Vilbazo 2005) and the Phonetic Form Interface Condition (MacSwan and Colina 2014). The fundamental hypothesis that code-switching should be studied using the same tools that we use for monolingual phenomena is reinforced. View Full-Text
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López, L.; Alexiadou, A.; Veenstra, T. Code-Switching by Phase. Languages 2017, 2, 9.
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