Emotions and Language Choice: Codeswitching Is Motivated By Emotional Processes

We explored how emotions affect the amount and type of language used by adult multilingual Arabic and Hebrew (ASP\HSP) native speakers. Results: a higher overall codeswitching rate among fluent multilinguals (ASP) compared to HSP. for ASP's Codeswitching was made specifically for MSA. Emotional processes are suggested to affect language choice.