Structural priming of code-switches in non-shared-word-order utterances : The effect of lexical repetition
(2023) In Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 26(4). p.670-683- Abstract
- Code-switching is generally dispreferred at points of non-shared word order across a bilingual’s two languages. In priming studies, this dispreference persists even following exposure to a code-switched non-shared-word-order utterance. The present study delves deeper into the scope of code-switching priming by investigating whether lexical repetition across target and prime, a factor known to boost structural priming, can increase code-switching at points of word order divergence. Afrikaans–English bilinguals (n=46) heard prime sentences in which word order, lexical repetition, and switch position were manipulated and subsequently produced code-switched picture descriptions. The results show that lexical repetition boosts the priming of... (More)
- Code-switching is generally dispreferred at points of non-shared word order across a bilingual’s two languages. In priming studies, this dispreference persists even following exposure to a code-switched non-shared-word-order utterance. The present study delves deeper into the scope of code-switching priming by investigating whether lexical repetition across target and prime, a factor known to boost structural priming, can increase code-switching at points of word order divergence. Afrikaans–English bilinguals (n=46) heard prime sentences in which word order, lexical repetition, and switch position were manipulated and subsequently produced code-switched picture descriptions. The results show that lexical repetition boosts the priming of code-switching in a non-shared word order. The findings demonstrate that code-switching in production is affected by a dynamic interplay between factors both language-internal (i.e., word order) and language-external (i.e., priming, and specifically lexical repetition). (Less)
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- Berghoff, Robyn ; Gullberg, Marianne LU and Kootstra, Gerrit Jan
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- 2023-02-07
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- code-switching, priming, word order, bilingualism, lexical boost, speech production
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- Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
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- 26
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- 4
- pages
- 670 - 683
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- Cambridge University Press
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- 1366-7289
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- 10.1017/S1366728923000044
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- Embodied bilingualism (a Wallenberg Scholar project)
- Unravelling the multilingual mind
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- English
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