The Role of Cognate Words, POS Tags and Entrainment in Code-Switching
The Role of Cognate Words, POS Tags and Entrainment in Code-Switching
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同源词、词性标签和语码转换中的作用
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2018
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Julia Hirschberg
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Víctor Soto;Nishmar Cestero;Julia Hirschberg
引起语码转换的语言或语境刺激在很大程度上是未知的，尽管这些对于理解混合语言和构建可以处理它的工具至关重要。在本文中，我们测试了语言学文献中提出的以下假设：首先，同源刺激与语码转换直接相关；其次，句法信息促进或抑制语码转换；第三，双语者之间的对话中，说话者会通过语码转换相互吸引。为了测试这些假设，我们建立了英语-西班牙语同源对的词汇数据库。对英语-西班牙语会话语码转换语料库进行统计显着性测试，我们发现：a）有强有力的统计证据表明，同源词和转换在同一个话语中同时出现，并且同源词在语码转换之前促进了转换，b）有强有力的统计证据表明词性标签和语码转换之间的关系，c）说话者在语码转换率方面倾向于表现出趋同的夹带行为在谈话中。
The linguistic or contextual stimuli that elicit code-switching are largely unknown, despite the fact that these are of key importance to understanding mixed language and building tools that can handle it. In this paper, we test the following hypothe-ses proposed in linguistics literature: first, that cognate stimuli are directly correlated to code-switching; second, that syntactic information facilitates or inhibits code-switching; and third that speakers entrain to one another in code-switching in conversation between bilinguals. In order to test these hypotheses, we built a lexical database of cognate pairs for English-Spanish. Using statistical significance tests on a corpus of conversational code-switched English-Spanish, we found that a) there is strong statistical evidence that cognates and switches occur simultane-ously in the same utterance and that cognates facilitate switching when they precede a code-switch, b) there is strong statistical evidence of the relationship between part-of-speech tags and code-switching and c) speakers tend to show converging entrainment behavior with respect to their rate of code-switching in conversation.