Syntactic alignment and shared word order in code-switched sentence production: Evidence from bilingual monologue and dialogue

Kootstra, Gerrit Jan; Hell, Janet G. van; Dijkstra, Ton

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2010.03.006

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“…Such linkage allows functionally distinct but interconnected networks (Kroll et al (2010) for further discussion) and is consistent with evidence of intermingled neuronal populations mediating language representation (Consonni et al 2013;Green 2003;Paradis 2004) and for wider discussion (Green and Kroll forthcoming). We followed Hartsuiker et al (2004) in supposing that common syntactic constructions, that underlie congruent lexicalisation, are represented by combinatorial nodes (see also Kootstra et al 2010). For example, English and Dutch would share common combinatorial nodes for the verb give for a prepositional object construction (as in Jack gave the ball to Jill) and for the double object construction (as in Jack gave Jill the ball).…”

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Language Control and Code-switching

Green

2018

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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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Section: The Extended Control Process Modelmentioning

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Language Control and Code-switching

Green

2018

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“…Habitual codeswitchers are able to regulate the activation of psycholinguistic representations in a way that allows them to fluidly interleave their two languages without obvious disruptions in processing. The surface form of codeswitched speech thus ultimately reflects the end of a long chain of complex processing events, including production-internal processes (Levelt, 1989) as well as interactions between the production and comprehension systems (e.g., Kootstra, van Hell, & Dijkstra, 2010; Loebell & Bock, 2003). On the flip side, listeners' responses to codeswitched speech can provide an index of their expectations given previous experience processing a particular linguistic input (Valdés Kroff, Dussias, Gerfen, Perrotti, & Bajo, in press).…”

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

Fricke

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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“…Although evidence for this effect so far is limited, the sentence's main verb in particular may be prone to influences of syntactic processing. Furthermore, cross-language syntactic activation can also influence language switching patterns, evidenced by the observation that a shared word order is preferred for language switch ing (Kootstra, Van Hell, & Dijkstra, 2010;Poplack, 1980). In other words, an overlapping sentence structure between languages makes it easier to switch and may increase co activation for lexical items.…”

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Switch cost modulations in bilingual sentence processing: evidence from shadowing

Bultena

Dijkstra

Hell

2014

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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In bilingual processing, cognates are associated with facilitatory processing, while switching between languages is associated with a processing cost. This study investigates whether co-activation of cognates affects the magnitude of switch costs in sentence context. A shadowing task was conducted to examine whether verb cognates reduce switch costs in sentences that switched between participants' LI and L2. In addition, we considered whether these effects were influenced by L2 proficiency, switching direction and cross-linguistic overlap in syntactic structure. Bilinguals were presented with LI and L2 sentences that contained a language switch preceded by a cognate. Shadowing latencies showed that switching to L2 was more costly than switching to LI. Switch costs in both directions were not modulated by the presence of a verb cognate, and this effect was not affected by syntactic structure or L2 proficiency. The results are informative for the field of bilingual processing and the lexical trigger hypothesis.

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Syntactic alignment and shared word order in code-switched sentence production: Evidence from bilingual monologue and dialogue

Cited by 147 publications

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Language Control and Code-switching

Language Control and Code-switching

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

Switch cost modulations in bilingual sentence processing: evidence from shadowing

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