5. Building Bilingual Corpora

Webb-Davies, Peredur; Deuchar, Margaret; Herring, Jon; Couto, Maria Parafita; Carter, Diana

doi:10.21832/9781783091713-008

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“…The Miami corpus [5] was collected in 2008 by Jon Herring and local assistants [22]. From the 1960s onwards, Miami has undergone an influx of Spanish speakers, resulting in intensive language contact between English and Spanish [23,24].…”

Section: Miami Corpusmentioning

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Determiner Asymmetry in Mixed Nominal Constructions: The Role of Grammatical Factors in Data from Miami and Nicaragua

2017

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This paper focuses on the factors influencing the language of determiners in nominal constructions in two sets of bilingual data: Spanish/English from Miami and Spanish/English creole from Nicaragua. Previous studies (Liceras et al. 2008;Moro Quintanilla 2014) have argued that Spanish determiners are preferred in mixed nominal constructions because of their grammaticised nature. However, those studies did not take the matrix language into account, even though Herring et al. (2010) found that the language of the determiner matched the matrix language. Therefore, we hypothesise that the matrix language is the main influence on the language of the determiner in both mixed and unmixed nominal constructions. The results are consistent with our hypothesis that the matrix language of the clause provides the language of the determiner in mixed and unmixed Determiner Phrases (DPs). Once the matrix language is controlled for, the Miami data show a greater tendency for Spanish determiners to appear in mixed DPs than English determiners. However, in the Nicaragua data, we found only mixed DPs with an English creole determiner. This suggests that bilingual communities do not always follow the same pattern, and that social rather than grammatical factors may be at play. We conclude that while the language of the determiner is influenced by clause-internal structure, that of its noun complement and the matrix language itself depends on extralinguistic considerations.

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Section: Miami Corpusmentioning

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Determiner Asymmetry in Mixed Nominal Constructions: The Role of Grammatical Factors in Data from Miami and Nicaragua

2017

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“…The Welsh-English corpus (Deuchar, Davies, Herring, Parafita Couto & Carter, 2014) consists of 40 hours of recordings, with 151 speakers from various educational backgrounds (81 female, age range 10-80 years) engaged in dyadic conversation on a free topic. Of the speakers, 63% (n = 95) assessed their own proficiency as equally high in both languages.…”

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Code-switching within the noun phrase: Evidence from three corpora

Couto

Gullberg

2017

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: This study aims to improve our understanding of common switching patterns by examining determiner-noun-adjective complexes in code-switching (CS) in three language pairs (Welsh-English, Spanish-English and PapiamentoDutch). The languages differ in gender and noun-adjective word order in the noun phrase (NP): (a) Spanish, Welsh, and Dutch have gender; English and Papiamento do not; (b) Spanish, Welsh, and Papiamento prefer post-nominal adjectives; Dutch and English, prenominal ones. We test predictions on determiner language and adjective order derived from generativist accounts and the Matrix Language Frame (MLF) approach. Design/methodology/approach: We draw on three publicly available spoken corpora. For the purposes of these analyses, we re-coded all three datasets identically. From the three re-coded corpora we extracted all monolingual and mixed simplex NPs (DetN) and complex NPs with determiners (determiner-adjective-noun (DetAN/NA)). We then examined the surrounding clause for each to determine the matrix language based on the finite verb. Data and analysis: We analysed the data using a linear regression model in R statistical software to examine the distribution of languages across word class and word order in the corpora. Findings/conclusions: Overall, the generativist predictions are borne out regarding adjective positions but not determiners and the MLF accounts for more of the data. We explore extralinguistic explanations for the patterns observed. Originality: The current study has provided new empirical data on nominal CS from language pairs not previously considered. Significance/implications: This study has revealed robust patterns across three corpora and taken a step towards disentangling two theoretical accounts. Overall, the findings highlight the importance of comparing multiple language pairs using similar coding.

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“…The first production study examined speech rate (and speech disfluency) in the Bangor Miami Corpus of spontaneous codeswitching (Deuchar et al, 2014). The Bangor Miami Corpus consists of 56 conversations, each around 30 minutes long, between 85 highly balanced Spanish-English bilinguals.…”

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“…An analysis of spontaneous bilingual codeswitching in the Bangor Miami Corpus (Deuchar et al, 2014) reveals that in anticipation of switching languages, Spanish-English bilinguals produce slowed speech rate and cross-language phonological influence on consonant voice onset time. A study of speech comprehension using the visual world paradigm demonstrates that bilingual listeners can indeed exploit these low-level phonetic cues to anticipate that a codeswitch is coming and to suppress activation of the non-target language.…”

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Phonetic variation in bilingual speech: A lens for studying the production–comprehension link

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Kroll

Dussias

2016

Journal of Memory and Language

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We exploit the unique phonetic properties of bilingual speech to ask how processes occurring during planning affect speech articulation, and whether listeners can use the phonetic modulations that occur in anticipation of a codeswitch to help restrict their lexical search to the appropriate language. An analysis of spontaneous bilingual codeswitching in the Bangor Miami Corpus (Deuchar et al., 2014) reveals that in anticipation of switching languages, Spanish-English bilinguals produce slowed speech rate and cross-language phonological influence on consonant voice onset time. A study of speech comprehension using the visual world paradigm demonstrates that bilingual listeners can indeed exploit these low-level phonetic cues to anticipate that a codeswitch is coming and to suppress activation of the non-target language. We discuss the implications of these results for current theories of bilingual language regulation, and situate them in terms of recent proposals relating the coupling of the production and comprehension systems more generally.

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5. Building Bilingual Corpora

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Determiner Asymmetry in Mixed Nominal Constructions: The Role of Grammatical Factors in Data from Miami and Nicaragua

Determiner Asymmetry in Mixed Nominal Constructions: The Role of Grammatical Factors in Data from Miami and Nicaragua

Code-switching within the noun phrase: Evidence from three corpora

Phonetic variation in bilingual speech: A lens for studying the production–comprehension link

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