Date:  Sat, 25 Dec 1993 01:07:51 -0700

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

Subject: Re: modren metathesis



Don,

    Merry Christmas (it is already, even in Arizona). I think it is

healthy for ADS folk to be exposed to discussions about code-switching,

since I think looking at CS can help clarify what is going on in style-

shifting, or other "intralanguage" kinds of shifting, including producing

forms like "modren". A lot of the same neurological mechanisms must be

involved, not to mention the social ones. And even if it might seem that the

ADS should restrict itself to examining English, Spanish/English CS is a

major speech pattern for large numbers of US bilinguals, and so even on this

ground should not be excluded. I would hope that the discussion might make

some people curious enough to look into some of the literature.

                Rudy