Information transfer between bilingual speakers

2019 International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research Cilt 2016/2, Sayı 4

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Human is constantly able to build new sentences and to express himself in different ways, even with a limited vocabulary. Bilingual speakers, while expressing themselves verbally, have two language systems and theirs utilities. Since human brain works goal-oriented because of its nature, it utilizes this feature in an economic way and enables this bilingual source in the most productive way. Putting less effort is not always the purpose in productivity. Achievement of the intention of speech in the most effective way and avoiding misunderstandings are also productivity. Bilinguals switch from one language to other while talking among themselves in informal settings. This code-switching is not coincident. Based on audio transcriptions of bilingual speakers, this study aims to show, that code-switching moments are related with increasing productivity in speech.

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