TY - JOUR
T1 - INDIVIDUAL VARIATION IN THE STRUCTURE OF BILINGUAL GRAMMARS
AU - Cohen, Clara
AU - Nabi, Syed Waqar
AU - Higham, Catherine F.
AU - Putnam, Michael
AU - Kootstra, Gerrit Jan
AU - VAN HELL, Janet G.
N1 - Funding Information:
* This work was supported by funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant OISE-0968369, and from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), grants EP/L00058X/1 and EP/M01326X/1. Earlier versions of this work were presented at the 2017 conference on Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) in Lancaster, UK; and the Second International Symposium on Bilingual Language Processing in Children and Adults (ISBPAC-TU) in Braunschweig, Germany.
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PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - 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.*.
AB - 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.*.
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U2 - 10.1353/lan.2021.0064
DO - 10.1353/lan.2021.0064
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122724637
SN - 0097-8507
VL - 97
SP - 752
EP - 792
JO - Language
JF - Language
IS - 4
ER -