Cohen, C. , Nabi, S. W. , Higham, C. F. , Putnam, M., Kootstra, G. J. and van Hell, J. (2021) Individual variation in the structure of bilingual grammars. Language, 97(4), pp. 752-792. (doi: 10.1353/lan.2021.0064)
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Abstract
A bilingual’s two languages can interact in their mind, but the mechanism of this interaction is still open to debate. In this article we employ a variant of gradient symbolic computation (GSC; Smolensky et al. 2014) to model the code-switched utterances of unbalanced Dutch-English bilinguals. We aimed to evaluate GSC as an appropriate architecture to model bilingual code-switching grammars, and to explore the extent of variability within and across individual bilingual speakers. The results indicate that the structure of individual grammars can vary widely from the structure of the grammar that emerges when the population is studied as a whole. We interpret these results as evidence that individual variation characterizes not only language processing (e.g. Fricke et al. 2019, Kidd et al. 2018), but also the structure of bilingual grammar itself.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Higham, Dr Catherine and Cohen, Dr Clara and Nabi, Dr Syed Waqar |
| Authors: | Cohen, C., Nabi, S. W., Higham, C. F., Putnam, M., Kootstra, G. J., and van Hell, J. |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Language and Linguistics College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science |
| Journal Name: | Language |
| Publisher: | Linguistic Society of America |
| ISSN: | 0097-8507 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1535-0665 |
| Published Online: | 21 December 2021 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2021 The Linguistic Society of America |
| First Published: | First published in Language 97(4): 752-792 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy |
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