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Conversational Code-Switching In Autobiographical Memories By Italian Immigrants, Nadia M. Mior McMaster University

Conversational Code-Switching In Autobiographical Memories By Italian Immigrants, Nadia M. Mior

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Conversational code-switching is common among bilingual speakers, in fact, we consider this routine; however, the reasons for switching and the location of this mechanism in the brain remain largely unknown. There is much to be discovered about bilingual code-switching especially in relation to autobiographical memories shared between immigrants. This study investigates the two phenomena: code-switching and autobiographical memories. The research is based on the following major theories: 1) Schrauf (2009) who said that one’s “…particular personal memories are associated with one or the other of the bilingual’s languages” (p. 26), which he called the language-specificity effect; 2) Marian ...