Monique Rabé

North-West University | NWU · School of Languages (Faculty of Humanities)

Code-switching is a complex skill that refers to the use of two or more languages by a speaker during one utterance or conversation (Gort, 2012:46; Van Dulm, 2007:1; Myers-Scotton,2009:239). In South Africa, with its 11 official languages, children are exposed to more than one language, and subsequently, code-switching is ubiquitous (Van Dulm, 2007...

For many decades now, automatic content classification stood at the centre of artificial intelligence design and machine learning systems. One of the most famous examples is probably the Netflix Prize, which was an open competition to find the best algorithm that could predict user ratings for films (e.g., Greene 2006; Kasula 2020). Content classif...

Censorship is the practice of suppressing or controlling the creation of and/or public access to artefacts based on their content – for political and/or moral reasons. Such artefacts include the fine arts; performing arts, including film and theatre; the art of words, science, and journalism; and digital products such as computer games and websites...

Lexical units that are identical in form and that are traditionally referred to as either adpositions, adverbs, or particles (based on their morphosyntactic properties), can also be grouped together (based on semantic properties) under the term P-items (see for example Fontaine 2017). Although it is for most linguistic endeavours sufficient to refe...

One of the central ideas in construction grammar (CxG) is that our linguistic knowledge is structured as a mental inventory of constructions, i.e., a constructicon. Descriptive representations of such constructicons are best characterised as a blend between CxG and lexicography, and has come to be known as constructicography (cf. Lyngfelt, 2018:2)....

South Africa’s various multilingual communities – a mix of eleven official languages and many other, smaller languages – offer unique opportunities to study constructions in contact. The influence of two of the West Germanic languages on each other, English and Afrikaans, has been the subject of study for many years – see for example Bekker (2019),...

Daar bestaan oor die algemeen nog min navorsing oor kinders se verwerwing van Afrikaans, sowel as oor kinders wat Afrikaans saam met ʼn ander taal as eerste tale van geboorte af aanleer (d.i. tweetalige eerstetaalverwerwing). Daar is spesifiek nog geen navorsing uitgevoer oor die prosesse (soos kodewisseling) wat in Afrikaans-Nederlandse kinders se...

Little research has been done on the way in which bilingual children acquire their first languages. This process – during which children acquire two languages simultaneously from birth – is known as bilingual first language acquisition (BFLA). Similarly, there is little research on the different language phenomena, such as code-switching, that can...

Little research has been done on the way in which bilingual children acquire their first languages. This process – during which children acquire two languages simultaneously from birth – is known as bilingual first language acquisition (BFLA). Similarly, there is also little research on the different language phenomena that can be observed when bil...

To describe the code-switching in the speech of pre-school, bilingual Afrikaans-Dutch children, novel language data of eight preschool children between the ages of 2;3 and 6;4 who are raised bilingually in Afrikaans and Dutch in South Africa were collected and analysed. The parent-report method was employed to collect the data, and the data collect...