ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION As with other speaking skills, the ability to switch fluently between languages must inevitably undergo change in environments where one language is being subsumed by another. This article examines how codeswitch fluency among one group of Arab immigrants changed over time and varied in relation to the frequency of other L1 disfluencies, educational levels, speakers' self-perceived levels of linguistic competence, and cultural factors. The study is based on a newly analyzed set of codeswitch data which were collected as part of a larger study of first language loss among Arab immigrants in Detroit (Kenny 1996).
