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CHAPTER 3 LITERATURE REVIEW
Optimality Grammar for the analysis of bilingual use attempts to set up
a grammatical approach to how the sociopragmatic constraints salient in a
given speech community determine the linguistic repertoire of that given
community, more particularly its code-switching mechanism.
The quintessential aim of this dissertation is to demonstrate how an
Optimality Theoretical approach to bilingual grammar works in the qualitative
sample of interview data collected in the Hungarian-American bilingual
community in North Carolina, and what quantitative sociolinguistic, language
use, motivation and attitude variables determine the code-switching patterns
observed in this community.
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