Primed codeswitching in spontaneous bilingual dialogue

Fricke, Melinda; Kootstra, Gerrit Jan

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2016.04.003

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“…Structurally, the presence of a finite verb in one language increased the likelihood that that language would form the matrix language for a code-switch in the current utterance independent of lexical factors. Corpus data then corroborate inferences from experimental research of the importance of bottom-up control (see also Broersma and de Bot 2006), but code-switched utterances accounted for only 5.8% of utterances in the analysis of the Bangor-Miami corpus by Fricke and Kootstra (2016). The bulk of utterances were in a single language.…”

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“…Scripted dialogue tasks, such as the map description task, offer a promising approach (Beatty-Martínez and Dussias 2017). Along with corpus data (Fricke and Kootstra 2016), such tasks allow identification of the cues to an upcoming code-switch and the opportunity to examine neural adaptation in the listener. So, for example, in the context of prior stretches of dense code-switching in the discourse, a cue to a code-switch Beatty-Martínez and Dussias 2017) should increase tonic pupil diameter and increase metastability in the networks mediating language control.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…I consider each question. Fricke and Kootstra's (2016) rich analysis of the Bangor-Miami corpus data (Deuchar et al 2014) provides good evidence for priming effects. They analysed successive clauses.…”

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Analyses of corpus-based indices of conversational code-switching in bilingual speakers predict the occurrence of intra-sentential code-switches consistent with the joint activation of both languages. Yet most utterances contain no code-switches despite good evidence for the joint activation of both languages even in single language utterances. Varying language activation levels is an insufficient mechanism to explain the variety of language use. We need a model of code-switching, consistent with the joint activation of both languages, which permits the range of language use in bilingual speakers. I treat overt speech as the outcome of a number of competitive processes governed by a set of control processes external to the language networks. In a conversation, the speech of the other person may "trigger" code-switches consistent with bottom-up control. By contrast, the intentions of the speaker may act top-down to set the constraints on language use. Given this dual control perspective, the paper extends the control process model (Green and Wei 2014) to cover a plausible neurocomputational basis for the construction and execution of utterance plans in code-switching. Distinct control states mediate different types of language use with switching frequency as a key parameter in determining the control state for code-switches. The paper considers the nature of these states and their transitions.

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“…Other explanations for the asymmetrical pattern of switching following determiners in the Miami data would require more exploration, but Fricke and Kootstra's work on the Miami data has established the importance of priming by material in the previous discourse, and this could be investigated in our data [32]. This account would be supported by the exposure-driven account posited by Valdés-Kroff [33], whereby bilingual speakers converge upon conventional production patterns.…”

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“…Another variable that could be considered would be the language proficiency or dominance of the speaker. For example, Liceras et al argued that it is possible to gain insights from the code-switching patterns and preferences which differentiate child and adult native speakers, simultaneous bilingual 6 Although we focused specifically on switches between the determiner and the noun, it is interesting to note that Fricke and Kootstra [32] (p. 11), using the same Miami corpus, also found fewer switches of any kind in bilingual clauses with English matrix language than with Spanish matrix language. speakers and L2 speakers [35].…”

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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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Primed codeswitching in spontaneous bilingual dialogue

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