Linguistic simplification is a cus...

Linguistic simplification is a customary phenomenon in language contact situations in which "bilinguals bring out strategies aimed at lightening the cognitive load of having to remember and use pair different linguistic systems" (Silva-Corvalan 1994) However, in any instances, this simplification process may not be in the same manner obvious. This study analyzes direct/indirect discourse patterns in the language of 15 Spanish/English bilinguals from the Houston community and 10 monolingual Mexican speakers. Our objective is to apply the mind at simplification at the syntactic even i.e., a lower ...