al structures and syntactic formations as part of one language or the other... or of both. Macnamara and Kushnir (1971) utilized experimental evidence which indicated a lag time in comprehension of bilingual utterances to postulate both an input and an output switch, operating sequentially and independently.
In Nairobi, English is usually considered to be prestigious (Parkins, 1974), and the use of Swahili is looked down upon. Nevertheless, there are many occasions where the reverse is true: English is seen as the language of the colonizer, Swahili as the national language. Pandit (1986:52) noted a like phenomenon in India: "Some instances of Hindi-English code switching under consideration could, perhaps, be explained in terms of values attached to the languages involved. In India, English is remote from the emotional make up of most Indians as compared to their mother tongue and as such a natural value could be ascribed to its use at times. For instance, certain things can be conveyed
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