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Syntactic Constraints on the Code Switching of Arabic-English Bilinguals.
Hussein, Riyad Fayez; Shorrab, Ghazi A. – IRAL, 1993
The notion of code-switching among Arabic-English bilinguals is examined. Various syntactic constraints are delineated that govern this phenomenon, the susceptibility of particular sentence constituents to switching, and the determination of the matrix language in their linguistic performance. (Contains 10 references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Arabic, Bilingual Students, Code Switching (Language)