A Case Study on Trilingual Siblings' Code Switching: Focus on Minority Language Development

ISBN-13: 9783631735916 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 260 str.

Jaewon Nielbock-Yoon

Opis

This book explores simultaneous trilingual siblings' code switching behavior focusing on their minority language development combined with a thorough examination of their parent's input. The book argues code switching is an organic building block in a child's multilingual system and provides a picture of its developmental process.

Spis treści

Syntactic Analysis of the Siblings' Code Switching - Adaptation of Non-Korean Words to Korean Morphology - Discourse Strategies and the Development of Children's CS - Development of adaptation of non-Korean words into Korean morphology

O autorze

Jaewon Nielbock-Yoon studied in Korea, the USA and gained her PhD at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her principal areas of interest are childhood multilingualism, intercultural communication, and language teaching methodology. She is currently an intercultural consultant and lecturer.