Linguistic and extra-linguistic triggers in intrasentential codeswitches
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2019/10/0032/000394Keywords:
bilingual word processing, codeswitching, triggering, ognate facilitation effectAbstract
The authors present an experimental study of bilingual intrasentential codeswitches considered in the context of the triggering hypothesis. Language shifts between two typologically distant languages with a low density of cognates – Komi-Permyak and Russian – are analyzed. The results prove that the switches are induced by several types of triggers. In the first instance, the study replicates the cognate facilitation effect (a word directly preceding or following a cognate increases the chances of a codeswitch). Secondly, it is shown that this effect depends on the direction of the codeswitch and is related to the dominancy of the languages in bilingual consciousness. Finally, the influence of certain non-cognate triggers (the divergence of surface syntactic patterns along with the congruence of their underlying structures and the extra-linguistic/referential relatedness of the codeswitched words) is demonstrated.
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Gardner-Chloros, P. 2009. Code-switching. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
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