TY - JOUR
T1 - Examining the relationship between comprehension and production processes in code-switched language
AU - Guzzardo Tamargo, Rosa E.
AU - Valdés Kroff, Jorge R.
AU - Dussias, Paola E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by Paola E. Dussias; NSF Grant We would like to thank Rena Torres Cacoullos and John Lipski for comments on this work. We also thank two anonymous reviewers and Antje Meyer for many helpful comments on previous versions of this manuscript. All errors remain our own. NSF Dissertation Award BCS-1123874 to Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo and Paola E. Dussias; NSF Dissertation Award BCS-1124218 to Jorge R. Valdés Kroff and NSF Grant BCS-0821924 , BCS-0955090 , and NSF Grant OISE-0968369 to Paola E. Dussias; NIH Grant 5R21HD071758 to Paola E. Dussias; and NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship SMA-1203634 to Jorge R. Valdés Kroff.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2016/8/1
Y1 - 2016/8/1
N2 - We employ code-switching (the alternation of two languages in bilingual communication) to test the hypothesis, derived from experience-based models of processing (e.g., Boland, Tanenhaus, Carlson, & Garnsey, 1989; Gennari & MacDonald, 2009), that bilinguals are sensitive to the combinatorial distributional patterns derived from production and that they use this information to guide processing during the comprehension of code-switched sentences. An analysis of spontaneous bilingual speech confirmed the existence of production asymmetries involving two auxiliary + participle phrases in Spanish-English code-switches. A subsequent eye-tracking study with two groups of bilingual code-switchers examined the consequences of the differences in distributional patterns found in the corpus study for comprehension. Participants' comprehension costs mirrored the production patterns found in the corpus study. Findings are discussed in terms of the constraints that may be responsible for the distributional patterns in code-switching production and are situated within recent proposals of the links between production and comprehension.
AB - We employ code-switching (the alternation of two languages in bilingual communication) to test the hypothesis, derived from experience-based models of processing (e.g., Boland, Tanenhaus, Carlson, & Garnsey, 1989; Gennari & MacDonald, 2009), that bilinguals are sensitive to the combinatorial distributional patterns derived from production and that they use this information to guide processing during the comprehension of code-switched sentences. An analysis of spontaneous bilingual speech confirmed the existence of production asymmetries involving two auxiliary + participle phrases in Spanish-English code-switches. A subsequent eye-tracking study with two groups of bilingual code-switchers examined the consequences of the differences in distributional patterns found in the corpus study for comprehension. Participants' comprehension costs mirrored the production patterns found in the corpus study. Findings are discussed in terms of the constraints that may be responsible for the distributional patterns in code-switching production and are situated within recent proposals of the links between production and comprehension.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jml.2015.12.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jml.2015.12.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84952904557
SN - 0749-596X
VL - 89
SP - 138
EP - 161
JO - Journal of Memory and Language
JF - Journal of Memory and Language
ER -