@article{oai:kansaigaidai.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006255,
 author = {高木, 美也子 and Takagi, Miyako},
 journal = {研究論集, Journal of Inquiry and Research},
 month = {Sep},
 note = {論文, ARTICLE, This study concerns Japanese children living abroad due to their fathers' work. These children need to acquire the language of the host country, while at the same time maintaining their Japanese so that they will be able to adjust to Japanese society in the future. It would be expected that their language development has been considerably influenced by the bilingual environment in which they live. The question focused on in this paper is what happens to the L1 of Japanese children who live abroad as a result of contact with a dominant L2 environment. We can speculate about it by observing code-switching (CS) patterns. The paper investigates CS produced by Japanese children living in the UK from a grammatical perspective. The source of data is an elicitation by using one language at one time. The data was analyzed in the framework of the Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model and the 4-M model. It is shown that the children's CS is characterized as the incorporation of L2 into L1, because syntactically relevant system morphemes were always from Japanese. This implies that the L1 is maintained at the surface level of the language configuration. The results of the study suggest that the language contact situation for Japanese bilingual children may lead to L1 maintenance with convergence to L2. It is argued that L1 is maintained on the surface linguistic configuration, with converging toward L2 at the conceptual level.},
 pages = {19--37},
 title = {Code-switching and L1 development in Japanese-speaking children living in an L2 dominant environment},
 volume = {84},
 year = {2006},
 yomi = {タカギ, ミヤコ}
}