Interactive Alignment and Lexical Triggering of Code-Switching in Bilingual Dialogue.

ABSTRACT: When bilingual speakers use two languages in the same utterance, this is called code-switching. Previous research indicates that bilinguals' likelihood to code-switch is enhanced when the utterance to be produced (1) contains a word with a similar form across languages (lexical triggering) and (2) is preceded by a code-switched utterance, for example from a dialogue partner (interactive alignment/priming of code-switching). Both factors have mostly been tested on corpus data and have not yet been studied in combination. In two experiments, we therefore investigated the combined effects of interactive alignment and lexical triggering on code-switching. In Experiment 1, Dutch-English bilinguals described pictures to each other in a dialogue game where a confederate's code-switching was manip

SUBMITTER: Kootstra GJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7387648 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature