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The contribution of grammar and lexicon to language switching costs: Examining contact-induced languages and their implications for theories of language representation

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Abstract

Many language pairs chosen in language switching studies differ randomly on multiple linguistic levels, thus obscuring the nature of switching costs. Contact-induced languages, i.e., creoles (e.g., Spanish-based Palenquero) and mixed languages (e.g., Media Lengua), having arisen in intense language contact scenarios, relate systematically to their source languages by displaying high proportions of cognates or shared grammar. This configuration can speak to the relative contribution of lexicon and grammar to switching costs. Results from a production and comprehension task show that switching costs are systematically tied to a language pair's grammatical distance. This suggests that switching costs may result from the re-generation of the morphosyntactic frame on switch trials. Emphasizing the value of testing psycholinguistic theories outside of the usual Western populations, the current study provides insight into the degree of shared mental representations between contact-induced languages and their source languages.

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language switchingcreole/mixed languagesMedia LenguaPalenqueroQuichuaSpanishcognate effect
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 23 , Issue 5 , November 2020 , pp. 992 - 1007
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