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Psycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and Children
Edited by Leigh B. Fernandez, Kalliopi Katsika, Maialen Iraola Azpiroz and Shanley E.M. Allen
[Benjamins Current Topics 117] 2021
► pp. 211–236

Adjective-noun order in Papiamento-Dutch code-switching

ORCID logo | Leiden University Center for Linguistics | Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition
ORCID logo | Leiden University Center for Linguistics | Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition
| Leiden University Center for Linguistics
| Leiden University Center for Linguistics
| Cardiff University
| Cardiff University
ORCID logo | Leiden University Center for Linguistics | Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition

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.

Keywords: code-switching, conflict sites, nominal constructions, Papiamento, Dutch, event-related potentials
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Evaluation of theoretical models
  • 3.Adjective-noun switches in Papiamento-Dutch
    • 3.1Adjective-noun switches in Papiamento-Dutch bilingual production
    • 3.2Towards the present study: Adjective-noun switches in Papiamento-Dutch bilingual comprehension
      • 3.2.1Predictions for the present ERP study on Papiamento-Dutch
  • 4.Materials and methods
    • 4.1Participants
    • 4.2Materials
    • 4.3Procedure
      • 4.3.1Electrophysiological recording
    • 4.4Data analysis
  • 5.Results
  • 6.Discussion
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 14 July 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.117.09pab
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