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An integrated perspective on code-mixing patterns beyond doubling?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2016

MARIANNE GULLBERG  and
M. CARMEN PARAFITA COUTO
MARIANNE GULLBERG*
Affiliation:
Lund University
M. CARMEN PARAFITA COUTO
Affiliation:
Leiden University
*
Address for correspondence: Marianne Gullberg, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, PO Box 201, 221 00 Lund, Swedenmarianne.gullberg@ling.lu.se
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Code-mixing (CM) is a striking example of how two languages are active simultaneously in bilingual production. Gradient Symbolic Computation (GSC) proposes a formalism to account for the systematicity of CM patterns by integrating psycholinguistic notions of bilingual co-activation with generativist accounts of grammar. We applaud the attempt to bridge research traditions and all efforts to capture the systematicity of variation, and the interaction between processing and grammatical constraints in bilingual production. However, the descriptive and predictive scope of the current proposal remains somewhat unclear, as does its connection to existing accounts.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 19 , Issue 5 , November 2016 , pp. 885 - 886
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