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Language and cognition in bilingual production: the real work still lies ahead

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2016

ANTONELLA SORACE
ANTONELLA SORACE*
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
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Address for correspondence: University of Edinburgh, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AD, Scotland, UK
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Goldrick, Putnam and Schwarz (Goldrick, Putnam & Schwarz) argue that code-mixing in bilingual production involves not only combining forms from both languages but also – crucially – integrating grammatical principles with gradient mental representations. They further propose an analysis of a particular case of intrasentential code mixing – doubling constructions – framed within the formalism of Gradient Symbolic Computation. This formalism, in their view, is better suited to accounting for code mixing than other generative language models because it allows the weighting of constraints both in the choice of particular structures within a single language and in blends of structures in code-mixed productions.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 19 , Issue 5 , November 2016 , pp. 895 - 896
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