Grammatical Encoding in Bilingual Language Production: A Focus on Code-switching.

ABSTRACT: In this study, I report three experiments that examined whether words from one language of bilinguals can use the syntactic features form the other language, and how such syntactic co-activation might influence syntactic processing. In other words, I examined whether there are any cases in which an inherent syntactic feature a lexical item is inhibited and the syntactic feature that belongs to the other language is used, instead. In the non-switch condition in Experiments 1 and 2, Persian-English bilinguals described pictures using an adjective-noun string from the same language requested. In the switch condition, they used a noun and an adjective from the other language. In the switch condition in Experiment 3, participants used only the adjective of a noun phrase from the other language.

SUBMITTER: Purmohammad M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4659875 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature