The Matrix Language Frame Model says that one language supplies the grammatical framework that words from another language are embedded into.

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- The use of a single word in a different language is not an indication of multi-lingualism
- Grammar ends up being the restrictions that distinguishes whether or not an example of multi-lingualism is considered code-switching
- One such model is the Matrix Language Frame Model

Models of Code Switching

The Matrix Language Frame Model (MLF)

- deals with replacing a single word in a sentence with one from a different language (lone word insertion)
- does not require language of knowledge systems

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