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The future of code mixing research: Integrating psycholinguistic and formal grammatical theories*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2016

MATTHEW GOLDRICK ,
MICHAEL PUTNAM  and
LARA SCHWARZ
MATTHEW GOLDRICK*
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
MICHAEL PUTNAM
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
LARA SCHWARZ
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
*
Address for correspondence: Matthew Goldrick, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, 2016 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL 60208USA[email protected]
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Our keynote article “Coactivation in bilingual grammars: A computational account of code mixing” (Goldrick, Putnam & Schwarz) aimed to provide a framework that would begin to unify psycholinguistic and formal grammatical approaches to code mixing. We situated our account within a large body of psycholinguistic and phonetic evidence suggesting that, under many conditions, multiple representational elements simultaneously occupy (to varying degrees) a single position within a linguistic structure. The presence of such blends in multilingual cognition is not compatible with many formal grammatical approaches that assume mental representations are necessarily discrete.

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Code mixingGradient Symbolic Computation
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 19 , Issue 5 , November 2016 , pp. 903 - 906
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This research was supported by NSF grant BCS1344269.

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