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dc.contributor.authorTomic, Aleksandra
dc.contributor.authorValdés Kroff, Jorge
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-16T11:20:45Z
dc.date.available2021-09-16T11:20:45Z
dc.date.issued2021-08-11
dc.description.abstractDespite its prominent use among bilinguals, psycholinguistic studies reported code-switch processing costs (e.g., Meuter & Allport, 1999). This paradox may partly be due to the focus on the code-switch itself instead of its potential subsequent benefits. Motivated by corpus studies on CS patterns and sociopragmatic functions of CS, we asked whether bilinguals use code-switches as a cue to the lexical characteristics of upcoming speech. We report a visual world study testing whether code-switching facilitates the anticipation of lower-frequency words. Results confirm that US Spanish–English bilinguals (n = 30) use minority (Spanish) to majority (English) language code-switches in real-time language processing as a cue that a less frequent word would ensue, as indexed by increased looks at images representing lower- vs. higher-frequency words in the code-switched condition, prior to the target word onset. These results highlight the need to further integrate sociolinguistic and corpus observations into the experimental study of code-switching.en_US
dc.identifier.citationTomic A, Valdés Kroff J. Expecting the unexpected: Code-switching as a facilitatory cue in online sentence processing. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 2021en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1927769
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S1366728921000237
dc.identifier.issn1366-7289
dc.identifier.issn1469-1841
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/22562
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherCambrigde University Pressen_US
dc.relation.journalBilingualism: Language and Cognition
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010en_US
dc.titleExpecting the unexpected: Code-switching as a facilitatory cue in online sentence processingen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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