Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

codeswitching

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English

Syllables: codeswitch-ing
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of code-switching.

Countable; Uncountable

verb

present participle and gerund of codeswitch

Example Sentences

"1998, RELC Journal, Volumes 29-30, SEAMEO Regional Language Centre, page 190, Hendrik Boeschoten discusses the questions of codeswitching and language change and the possibility of a codeswitching norm."
"2004, Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie M. Balester, Victor Villanueva, Latino/a Discourses, Boynton/Cook Publishers, Heinemann, page 27, What these beliefs fail to account for is the fact that codeswitching is a universal phenomenon of language contact, a mechanism of language shift as well as language change (Myers-Scotton 210)."
"We deal only with the clause, because it is only within the clause that the language varieties involved in codeswitching are in contact."

Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Linguistics.

Inflected Forms

codeswitchings (plural)

Questions

What does codeswitching mean?: Alternative form of code-switching.

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