The role of codeswitched input to children in the origin of a new mixed language

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ID3989557
AuthorsCarmel O''Shannessy (0000-0003-4914-9693, University of Michigan, corresponding author), Carmel O'Shannessy
Year2012
Volume50
Issue2
Publication date2012-01-22
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling-2012-0011
OpenAlexW2326813597
LanguageEN
Citations received43

Light Warlpiri is a mixed language, with Warlpiri and Aboriginal English/Kriol as its sources. It was developed by a group who received codeswitched input in a baby talk register from when they were young. The innovating group conventionalized the input they received and developed morphosyntactic structures beyond those in the input. The development of Light Warlpiri shows that commonly occurring processes in language contact situations, codeswitching and re-analyses of existing forms, play an important role in the extreme outcome of the development of a mixed language, through a two-part process: a) an adult group directed codeswitched speech to children, and b) the children conventionalized and expanded the morphosyntactic structures they heard. The new code is an in-group language and did not emerge in order to indicate a new dual-cultural identity, but since its development it has come to signal the identity of young Warlpiri from Lajamanu

Aesthetics · Art · Dual (grammatical number · Identity (music · Linguistics · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology

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