Code-switching: A Case Study of Kurdish-German Pre-school Bilingual Children

The state of acquiring more than one language as a child or an adult is not the exception; it is rather an everyday reality for a quite substantial part of today’s society. This book explores the phenomenon of code—switching within the field of child bilingualism from both linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. Based on collected data from Kurdish—German pre—school bilingual children in Austria, this empirical study aims at giving an analysis of linguistic and extra—linguistic factors...