Code-switching and predictability of meaning in discourse
Code-switching and predictability of meaning in discourse
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话语中的语码转换和意义的可预测性
DOI：
10.1353/lan.2015.0068
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发表时间：
2015
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
R. Levy
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文献类型：
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作者：
Mark Myslín;R. Levy
是什么促使双语流利的人在一次说话中切换语言？我们提出了一种新颖的话语功能动机：难以预测的、高信息含量的含义用一种语言编码，而更可预测的、低信息含量的含义用另一种语言编码。切换到说话者不常用、因此更显着的语言提供了一种独特的编码，突出了理解者应该特别仔细注意的信息丰富的材料。我们使用自然捷克语-英语双语语篇的语料库，使用混合效应逻辑回归，针对来自社会语言学、心理语言学和语篇功能研究领域的广泛控制因素来测试这一假设，这是第一个对语篇中的语码转换进行定量多因素研究的研究。我们发现，使用香农猜测游戏来量化对话中含义的可预测性，具有难以猜测含义的单词确实更有可能是语码转换站点，这实际上是预测数据中语码转换发生的最具解释性的因素之一。我们认为，语言的选择以及韵律和句法等熟悉的手段可以作为话语中信息内容的正式标记。我们进一步论证了在自然对话中对社会语言学说话人选择现象采取严格的、多因素的方法的效用。
What motivates a fluent bilingual speaker to switch languages within a single utterance? We propose a novel discourse-functional motivation: less predictable, high information-content meanings are encoded in one language, and more predictable, lower information-content meanings are encoded in another language. Switches to a speaker’s less frequently used, and hence more salient, language offer a distinct encoding that highlights information-rich material that comprehenders should attend to especially carefully. Using a corpus of natural Czech-English bilingual discourse, we test this hypothesis against an extensive set of control factors from sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and discourse-functional lines of research using mixed-effects logistic regression, in the first such quantitative multifactorial investigation of code-switching in discourse. We find, using a Shannon guessing game to quantify predictability of meanings in conversation, that words with difficult-to-guess meanings are indeed more likely to be code-switch sites, and that this is in fact one of the most highly explanatory factors in predicting the occurrence of code-switching in our data. We argue that choice of language thus serves as a formal marker of information content in discourse, along with familiar means such as prosody and syntax. We further argue for the utility of rigorous, multifactorial approaches to sociolinguistic speaker-choice phenomena in natural conversation.
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影响因子：
4.1
作者：
Gollan, Tamar H.;Kleinman, Daniel;Wierenga, Christina E.
通讯作者：
Wierenga, Christina E.
DOI：
10.1037/a0014981
发表时间：
2009-05
影响因子：
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作者：
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作者：
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通讯作者：
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