Two languages, one effect: Structural priming in spontaneous code-switching *
Two languages, one effect: Structural priming in spontaneous code-switching *
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两种语言，一种效果：自发语码转换中的结构启动 *
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2016
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Catherine E. Travis
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Rena Cacoullos;Catherine E. Travis
本文研究了语码转换和结构启动对新墨西哥双语群体中西班牙语第一人称单数主语代词的可变表达的影响。与西班牙语和英语基准的比较表明，西班牙语没有向英语语法趋同，包括在语码转换的情况下，变体选择的语言条件仍然没有改变。我们发现了一种语言内部启动效应和跨语言启动效应，尽管强度不同，例如说话者的前指涉（西班牙语和英语）主语代词倾向于后指代词，而未表达的主语往往紧随其后。考虑到英语中未表达的主语很少，在存在代码转换的情况下，使用未表达的素数出现的标记较少。因此，代码转换没有内在的影响。相反，它会导致与启动相关的情境特征分布发生相应的变化，这与我们在这里提出的情境分布-转换假设相反，也符合我们在这里提出的情境分布-转换假设。
We investigate here the contribution of code-switching and structural priming to variable expression of the Spanish first person singular subject pronoun in the New Mexican bilingual community. Comparisons with both Spanish and English benchmarks indicate no convergence of Spanish toward English grammar, including in the presence of code-switching, where the linguistic conditioning of variant selection remains unaltered. We find a language-internal and cross-language priming effect, albeit of differing strength, such that speakers’ preceding coreferential (Spanish and English) subject pronouns favor subsequent pronouns, whereas unexpressed subjects tend to be followed by unexpressed subjects. Given the rarity of unexpressed subjects in English, in the presence of code-switching fewer tokens occur with unexpressed primes. Thus, code-switching has no intrinsic effect. Instead, it results in associated shifts in the distribution of contextual features relevant to priming, contrary to the convergence-via-code-switching hypothesis and in accordance with the contextual distribution-via-code-switching hypothesis, which we put forward here.