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Adjective-noun order in Papiamento-Dutch code-switching
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Abstract
In Papiamento-Dutch bilingual speech, the nominal construction is a potential ‘conflict site’ if there is an adjective from one language and a noun from the other. Adjective position is pre-nominal in Dutch (cf. rode wijn ‘red wine’) but post-nominal in Papiamento (cf. biña kòrá ‘wine red’). We test predictions concerning the mechanisms underpinning word order in noun-adjective switches derived from three accounts: (i) the adjective determines word order (Cantone & MacSwan, 2009), (ii) the matrix language determines word order (Myers-Scotton, 1993, 2002), and (iii) either order is possible (Di Sciullo, 2014). An analysis of spontaneous Papiamento-Dutch code-switching production (Parafita Couto & Gullberg, 2017) could not distinguish between these predictions. We used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to measure online comprehension of code-switched utterances. We discuss how our results inform the three theoretical accounts and we relate them to syntactic coactivation and the production-comprehension link.
Abstract
In Papiamento-Dutch bilingual speech, the nominal construction is a potential ‘conflict site’ if there is an adjective from one language and a noun from the other. Adjective position is pre-nominal in Dutch (cf. rode wijn ‘red wine’) but post-nominal in Papiamento (cf. biña kòrá ‘wine red’). We test predictions concerning the mechanisms underpinning word order in noun-adjective switches derived from three accounts: (i) the adjective determines word order (Cantone & MacSwan, 2009), (ii) the matrix language determines word order (Myers-Scotton, 1993, 2002), and (iii) either order is possible (Di Sciullo, 2014). An analysis of spontaneous Papiamento-Dutch code-switching production (Parafita Couto & Gullberg, 2017) could not distinguish between these predictions. We used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to measure online comprehension of code-switched utterances. We discuss how our results inform the three theoretical accounts and we relate them to syntactic coactivation and the production-comprehension link.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children 1
- Processing strategies used by Basque-French bilingual and Basque monolingual children for the production of the subject-agent in Basque 11
- Bilingual language control across modalities 39
- Bilingual reference production 67
- Investigating vulnerabilities in grammatical processing of bilinguals 99
- Dominance, mode, and individual variation in bilingual speech production and perception 127
- Child heritage speakers’ production and comprehension of direct object clitic gender in Spanish 159
- Basque-Spanish bilingual children’s expressive and receptive grammatical abilities 187
- Adjective-noun order in Papiamento-Dutch code-switching 211
- Production, comprehension and repetition of accusative case by monolingual Russian and bilingual Russian-Dutch and Russian-Hebrew-speaking children 237
- Index 268
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children 1
- Processing strategies used by Basque-French bilingual and Basque monolingual children for the production of the subject-agent in Basque 11
- Bilingual language control across modalities 39
- Bilingual reference production 67
- Investigating vulnerabilities in grammatical processing of bilinguals 99
- Dominance, mode, and individual variation in bilingual speech production and perception 127
- Child heritage speakers’ production and comprehension of direct object clitic gender in Spanish 159
- Basque-Spanish bilingual children’s expressive and receptive grammatical abilities 187
- Adjective-noun order in Papiamento-Dutch code-switching 211
- Production, comprehension and repetition of accusative case by monolingual Russian and bilingual Russian-Dutch and Russian-Hebrew-speaking children 237
- Index 268
