STRUCTURAL TYPES OF INTRASENTENTIONAL CODE SWITCHES IN THE SPEECH OF THREE-YEAR-OLD BILINGUAL CHILDREN
The authors deal with the interrelation of Russian and English languages in the speech of two monoethnic bilingual children at the age period between three and four years old. The objective of the paper is to describe and compare structural features of intrasententionalcode switches in the dialogues between children and their parents or grandparents. The framework for the present study is the Matrix Language Frame model elaborated by C. Myers-Scotton, an American linguist. The results of the research demonstrate that Russian as the matrix and the dominant language strengthen its positions in the children’s bilingual speech, with the main principles of the model followed by both children more consistently than at the previous age stages.