A Case Study on Trilingual Siblings Code Switching

This book explores simultaneous trilingual siblings code switching behavior focusing on their minority language development combined with a thorough examination of their minority language speaking parents input. It explores their complex discourse in relationship to the key input, the minority language speaking parents responses to the childrens mixed utterances. This social-interactional and context-based perspective approach sheds new light on the fascinating facet of childrens language manipulating ability. The book describes how the siblings build up a systematic method of inserting non-Korean words into the Korean language structure and argues code switching is an organic building block in a childs multilingual system and provides a picture of its developmental process.