Code Switching

Deuchar, Margaret

doi:10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0142

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“…[F-BLU- [1][2][3][4][5][6] All mixed constructions matched the matrix language. Table 6 shows the numbers of unmixed and mixed DPs for each determiner and matrix language.…”

Section: Nicaragua Datamentioning

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“…The house DET 1 It has been reported previously that among mixed DPs, type (2a) occurs more frequently than type (2b), or in other words, Spanish determiners occur more frequently in mixed DPs than English determiners. For example, Liceras et al reported, from their review of research on mixed Spanish-English DPs in spontaneous adult speech and their own study of child speech, that mixed DPs with Spanish determiners are far more frequent than with English determiners [6].…”

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“…Since the 1980s, code-switching, "an activity which may be observed in the speech (or writing) of bilinguals who go back and forth between their two languages in the same conversation" [1], has been the focus of intensive study and debate. This linguistic phenomenon is not uncommon and can be found in various bilingual contexts [2].…”

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“…Spanish words are shown in italics below, and determiners in both languages are shown in bold font. 1.…”

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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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“…[F-BLU- [1][2][3][4][5][6] All mixed constructions matched the matrix language. Table 6 shows the numbers of unmixed and mixed DPs for each determiner and matrix language.…”

Section: Nicaragua Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Spanish words are shown in italics below, and determiners in both languages are shown in bold font. 1.…”

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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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“…Intraclausal code-switching (see Deuchar [2012] for a general introduction) is the use of elements from two or more languages in one utterance. Below we provide examples of clauses containing different combinations of determiner and noun in mixed determiner-noun constructions from Eppler's German-English corpus.…”

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Evaluating the predictions of three syntactic frameworks for mixed determiner–noun constructions

Eppler

Luescher

Deuchar

2016

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

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This paper presents a comparative evaluation of three linguistic frameworks, the Minimalist Programme (MP), Word Grammar (WG) and the Matrix Language Frame Model (MLF), regarding their predictions of possible combinations in a corpus of 187 German–English code-switched (CS) determiner–noun constructions. The comparison revealed a significant difference in the accuracy of the predictions between the MP and WG, but not between the other frameworks. We draw attention to the fact that while WG and MP deal with the processes of feature agreement between determiner and noun, the MLF is concerned with a broader notion of agreement in language membership. We suggest that advances in our understanding of grammaticality in code-switching will be achieved by combining the insights of all three frameworks instead of considering them in isolation.

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Gender in Dutch/Portuguesecodeswitching

Romaneli

Boers

Couto

2021

BJL

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This study focuses on unveiling the strategies involved in gender assignment in codeswitching between two gendered languages: Dutch (common/neuter gender) and Portuguese (masculine/feminine gender). We draw on naturalistic speech (n = 32 speakers), elicited production (n = 35) as well as intuitional data (n = 57) from Dutch/Portuguese bilinguals stemming from three communities in Paraná, Southern Brazil, aiming to disentangle the relative roles of linguistic and extralinguistic factors on gender assignment. In unilingual Dutch, we find that Dutch/Portuguese bilinguals overgeneralize common determiners and adjectives to neuter nouns, similarly to other Dutch bilinguals outside the Netherlands (Clyne 1977; Clyne and Pauwels 2013; Folmer 1991; Giesbers 1997). In codeswitched constructions, however, speakers assign common and masculine gender as defaults, in line with the prediction that speakers of language pairs with no gender values in common prefer gender defaulting in mixed constructions (Klassen 2016). While extralinguistic factors such as age and relative use of the languages shaped unilingual Dutch production, the patterns during codeswitching were conventionalized across the speaker sample.

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Code Switching

Cited by 22 publications

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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

Evaluating the predictions of three syntactic frameworks for mixed determiner–noun constructions

Gender in Dutch/Portuguesecodeswitching

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