PSYC 341 Study Guide - Code-Mixing, Adverbial Phrase, Code-Switching

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 341
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

Social and psychological factors in language mixing p. 349. Preliminary remarks: anyone who is bilingual has to account for two fundamental aspects of bilingual linguistic competency: Language integration: mixing of 2 languages has been associated with the misconceptions of these two aspects, this article looks at the social, psychological and perceptual phenomena of the mixing of two languages. Code switching (cs) refers to various linguistic units such as words, phrases, clauses, and sentences mostly by two grammatical systems. Cs is intersentential (2 diff. languages in the same sentence or one complete sentence in english, and the second sentence is french). Cs may be subject to discourse principles and involve social or psychological factors. Code mixing (cm) refers to the mixing of various linguistic units such as morphemes, words, modifiers, phrases, clauses, and sentences primarily from two participating grammatical systems. Intra-sentential and is constrained by grammatical principles as well as social and psychological factors.