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Testing tolerance for lexically-specific factors in Gradient Symbolic Computation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2016

JANET G. VAN HELL ,
CLARA COHEN  and
SARAH GREY
JANET G. VAN HELL*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Center for Language Science, Pennsylvania State University
CLARA COHEN
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Center for Language Science, Pennsylvania State University
SARAH GREY
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Center for Language Science, Pennsylvania State University
*
Address for correspondence: Janet G. van Hell, Department of Psychology, 414 Moore Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802USA[email protected]
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In their keynote article, Goldrick, Putnam and Schwarz (2016) present a computational account of code-mixing. Although they review literature on the co-activation of lexical representations and cognate facilitation effects in bilingual language processing, their model remains silent on how it interfaces with lexical factors, and how lexical factors impact code-switching. One such lexical factor is cognate status, which has been found to affect code-switching, as demonstrated in corpus analyses (e.g., Broersma & De Bot, 2006) and psycholinguistic experiments (Kootstra, Van Hell & Dijkstra, 2012). For example, using the structural priming technique to examine the role of lexical factors in code-switching, Kootstra et al. asked Dutch–English bilinguals to repeat a code-switched prime sentence (starting in Dutch and ending in English) and then describe a target picture by means of a code-switched sentence (also from Dutch into English). They observed that bilinguals' tendency to switch at the same position as in the prime sentence was increased when the prime sentence and target picture contained cognates.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 19 , Issue 5 , November 2016 , pp. 897 - 899
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