Date:  Tue, 21 Dec 1993 01:10:30 -0700

From:  Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARIZVMS.BITNET>

Subject: Re: modren metathesis



Don,

    Re our exchange on code-switching bilingual radio stations, I think

the growth of the phenomenon would make a subject for a great study, maybe

even a dissertation, covering the whole area from South Texas to California.

It is something that should be historically documented while information is

still fresh. Also it would be interesting in and of itself to analyze and

compare the patter of different deejays. Of the two locals my student inter-

viewed, one grew up in an insistently monolingual Spanish home, so had very

separated languages and native English pronunciation, while the other grew up

in a code-switching home and acquired a Spanish-accented English, so that the

phonological distinction usually cited between switching and borrowing does not

work for him. His biographical history messes up the nice theoretical distinc-

tion, making analysis more difficult. Another student is doing a spectro-

graphic analysis to look at switch points for clues to processing and timing.

Recently growing interest in language processing makes code-switching between

different languages an ideal window into real-time operations in processing in

a way no other intra-lingual behavior can. The prospects are exciting.

        Feliz Navidad,

        Rudy Troike