Bilingual and trilingual codeswitching between hungarian, romanian and english in the speech of two transylvanians living in North America

International Journal of Multilingualism

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 122-139

  Pittman, Iulia ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Codeswitching; Convergence; Divergence; Multilingual competence; Non Indo European; Trilingualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849117929     PISSN: 14790718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14790710802152305     Document Type: Article

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