‘I saw the <i>madre</i>’: evaluating predictions about codeswitched determiner-noun sequences using Spanish–English and Welsh–English data

Herring, Jon; Deuchar, Margaret; Couto, M. Carmen Parafita; Quintanilla, Mónica Moro

doi:10.1080/13670050.2010.488286

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“…The first group rated them on a Likert scale, while the second group performed a two-alternative forced-choice acceptability task (2AFC). Both experiments yielded converging evidence supporting Herring et al's [8] suggested preference for a match between the language of the determiner and the matrix language.…”

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“…In their own study of child speech, only about 5% of the mixed DPs had English determiners; in adult speech, Jake et al found 161 instances of Spanish determiners followed by English nouns, but no examples of English determiners followed by Spanish nouns [7]. However, Liceras et al [6] do not provide information about the morphosyntactic frame in which the mixed DPs appeared, which Herring et al [8] found to be relevant, as will be described below. Liceras et al also do not consider the proportion of mixed vs. unmixed DPs with a given determiner, in case unmixed Spanish DPs should be more common than unmixed English DPs [6].…”

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“…In the small amount of the data analysed by Herring et al [8], there was only one example out of 89 of a determiner (Spanish) and matrix language (English) mismatching. The matrix language of the clauses was Spanish in 90% of the cases, and the proportion of mixed DPs with a Spanish determiner found in those clauses was 91%, supporting the idea of a close relation between the language of the determiner and the matrix language of the clause.…”

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“…Herring et al attempted a preliminary evaluation of the influence of the matrix language on the determiner by using Welsh-English and Spanish-English data to assess the extent to which the matrix language matched the source language of the determiner in mixed DP constructions [8]. If we look again at examples (3) and (4) above, we can see that the language of the determiner in (3) is English, and thus matches the English matrix language of (3), while the language of the determiner in (4) is Spanish and thus matches the Spanish matrix language of (4).…”

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

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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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“…It is doubtful whether the MP approach satisfies Criterion (1), since it is a generative approach concerned with speaker competence rather than production (Chomsky, 1995). While some quantitative analysis of CS using the MP has been undertaken (see Herring, Deuchar, Parafita and Moro, 2010), most of the research is concerned with grammaticality judgments and elicited data (cf. MacSwan, 2000), and it has not been extensively applied to corpora.…”

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A Systematic Comparison of Factors Affecting the Choice of Matrix Language in Three Bilingual Communities

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Deuchar²,

Davies³

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In this paper we compare the code-switching (CS) patterns in three bilingual corpora collected in Wales, Miami and Patagonia, Argentina. Using the Matrix Language Framework (MLF) to do a clausebased analysis of a sample of data, we consider the impact of structural relationships and community norms on the CS patterns. We find that the ML is uniform where the language pairs have contrasting word orders, as in Welsh-English (VSO-SVO) and Welsh-Spanish (VSO-SVO) but diverse where the word order is similar as in Spanish-English (SVO-SVO). We find that the diversity of the ML in Miami is related to diversity of community norms (proficiency, identity and social network) in that community, while the uniformity of the ML in Wales is related to uniformity of community norms. This is not so clear in Patagonia, however, where we argue that bilingual speakers are so much in the minority that community norms may not hold.

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Conceptual and Empirical Arguments for a Language Feature: Evidence from Language Mixing

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Toribio

2019

Contributions of Romance Languages to Current Linguistic Theory

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‘I saw the madre’: evaluating predictions about codeswitched determiner-noun sequences using Spanish–English and Welsh–English data

Cited by 77 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

A Systematic Comparison of Factors Affecting the Choice of Matrix Language in Three Bilingual Communities

Conceptual and Empirical Arguments for a Language Feature: Evidence from Language Mixing

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