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: Received: 13 September 2020 / Approved: 17 September 2020 / Online: 17 September 2020 (10:35:52 CEST)
How to cite:
Huang, W.; Lyu, D.; Lin, J. Seeking Gender Difference in Code-Switching by Investigating Mandarin-English Child Bilingual in Singapore. Preprints2020, 2020090393. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0393.v1
Huang, W.; Lyu, D.; Lin, J. Seeking Gender Difference in Code-Switching by Investigating Mandarin-English Child Bilingual in Singapore. Preprints 2020, 2020090393. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0393.v1
Huang, W.; Lyu, D.; Lin, J. Seeking Gender Difference in Code-Switching by Investigating Mandarin-English Child Bilingual in Singapore. Preprints2020, 2020090393. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0393.v1
APA Style
Huang, W., Lyu, D., & Lin, J. (2020). Seeking Gender Difference in Code-Switching by Investigating Mandarin-English Child Bilingual in Singapore. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0393.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Huang, W., Danqian Lyu and Jingping Lin. 2020 "Seeking Gender Difference in Code-Switching by Investigating Mandarin-English Child Bilingual in Singapore" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0393.v1
Abstract
As a behavior of bilingual individuals and an indispensable part of bilingual speech, code-switching has been investigated by many researchers. However, there are many variables influencing code-switching, and each variable has the potential to be a confounding variable. Among these variables is the gender; however, whether there are significant gender differences and what are the gender differences in code-switching remains unknown for Mandarin Mandarin-English child bilinguals, as previous literature diverse on the existence of gender differences. Therefore, this paper seeks potential code-switching and distribution of code-switching by quantitative analysis of speech data in Singapore Bilingual Corpus. The results indicate that gender differences are significant in the amount of intra code-switching. However, neither considerable gender difference is observed in the amount of inter nor the code-switching related environment.
Keywords
Code-switching; Gender difference; Bilingualism
Subject
Social Sciences, Language and Linguistics
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
