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Perhaps the most important aspect of bilingual performance is the ability to change languages. Kolers (1968) has proposed that the skilled use of two languages presumes a readiness to switch between them, and to switch completely, that is, without elements of one language intruding in the other. Gumperz (1975: 1) refers to this aspect of the bilinguaPs performance as code switching, and defines it as 'the juxtaposition of passages of speech belonging to two different grammatical systems or subsystems within the same exchange'. Similarly, Gingras (1974: 167) refers to code switching as 'the alternation of grammatical rules, drawn from two different languages, which occurs within sentence boundaries'. This particular element in the bilingual's linguistic performance, the ability to switch languages within single sentences or phrases, has thus attracted much interest (Hatch 1976; Ervin-

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Author

ADALBERTO JR. AGUIRRE

Published

1985

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences