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Article published In: Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children
Edited by Maialen Iraola Azpiroz, Shanley E.M. Allen, Kalliopi Katsika and Leigh B. Fernandez
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:4/5] 2019
► pp. 710–735

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Adjective-noun order in Papiamento-Dutch code-switching

ORCiD logo with link | Leiden University Center for Linguistics | Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition
ORCiD logo with link | Leiden University Center for Linguistics | Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition
 | Leiden University Center for Linguistics
 | Leiden University Center for Linguistics
 | Cardiff University
 | Cardiff University
ORCiD logo with link | Leiden University Center for Linguistics | Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition
Published online: 9 October 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.17036.pab
Abstract
In Papiamento-Dutch bilingual speech, the nominal construction is a potential ‘conflict site’ if there is an adjective from one language and a noun from the other. Adjective position is pre-nominal in Dutch (cf. rode wijn ‘red wine’) but post-nominal in Papiamento (cf. biña kòrá ‘wine red’). We test predictions concerning the mechanisms underpinning word order in noun-adjective switches derived from three accounts: (i) the adjective determines word order (Cantone, K. F., & MacSwan, J. (2009). Adjectives and word order. In L. Isurin, D. Winford & K. de Bot (Eds.), Multidisciplinary approaches to code switching (pp. 243–278). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar), (ii) the matrix language determines word order (Myers-Scotton, C. (1993). Duelling languages: Grammatical structure in codeswitching. Oxford: Clarendon Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, (2002). Contact linguistics: Bilingual encounters and grammatical outcomes. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar), and (iii) either order is possible (Di Sciullo, A. M. (2014). On the asymmetric nature of the operations of grammar: Evidence from codeswitching. In J. MacSwan (Ed.), Grammatical theory and bilingual codeswitching, (pp. 63–85). Cambridge: MIT Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar). An analysis of spontaneous Papiamento-Dutch code-switching production (Parafita Couto, M. C., & Gullberg, M. (2017). Code-switching within the noun phrase. Evidence from three corpora. International Journal of Bilingualism, 1–20. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar) could not distinguish between these predictions. We used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to measure online comprehension of code-switched utterances. We discuss how our results inform the three theoretical accounts and we relate them to syntactic coactivation and the production-comprehension link.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Evaluation of theoretical models
  • 3.Adjective-noun switches in Papiamento-Dutch
    • 3.1Adjective-noun switches in Papiamento-Dutch bilingual production
    • 3.2Towards the present study: Adjective-noun switches in Papiamento-Dutch bilingual comprehension
      • 3.2.1Predictions for the present ERP study on Papiamento-Dutch
  • 4.Materials and methods
    • 4.1Participants
    • 4.2Materials
    • 4.3Procedure
      • 4.3.1Electrophysiological recording
    • 4.4Data analysis
  • 5.Results
  • 6.Discussion
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
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