Inter and intrasentential code switching among late bilinguals

Abstract EN

This study investigates intersentential and intrasentential code switching among late bilinguals among the Kurdish bilinguals.

enormous studies have been conducted on the impact of age of language acquisition on learning second language, however a little research have been conducted concerning to the influence of age of acquisition on how bilingual speakers code switch and the influence of language proficiency on intersentential and intrasentential code switching.

The result found out that that age of acquisition plays a crucial role in bilingual code switch.

Early bilinguals code switch more frequently than the late bilinguals, intersentential code switching is more common among late bilinguals, whilst intrasentenial code switching is more trend among the early bilinguals.