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The IC model and code-switching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2003

JEANINE TREFFERS-DALLER
JEANINE TREFFERS-DALLER
Affiliation:
Faculty of Languages and European Studies, University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, England. E-mail: [email protected]
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In his contribution Green proposes a very interesting model of bilingual speech processing, the inhibitory control (IC) model. The model's aim is to account for the way in which bilinguals control their two language systems. Although the model was not developed to account for code-switching, the author explicitly goes into implications of his model for code-switching and this makes it very relevant for linguists working in that field. Until now, psycholinguistic aspects of code-switching have received far less attention in the literature than the syntactic aspects of code-switching. The model therefore offers an excellent starting point for incorporating insights from psycholinguistics into code-switching research and vice versa.

Type
Peer Commentaries
Information
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , August 1998 , pp. 98 - 99
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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