Chapter published in:
Psycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and ChildrenEdited by Leigh 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
Leticia Pablos | Leiden University Center for Linguistics | Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition
M. Carmen Parafita Couto | Leiden University Center for Linguistics | Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition
Bastien Boutonnet | Leiden University Center for Linguistics
Amy de Jong | Leiden University Center for Linguistics
Marlou Perquin | Cardiff University
Annelies de Haan | Cardiff University
Niels O. Schiller | 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
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Acknowledgments -
Notes -
References
Published online: 14 July 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.117.09pab
https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.117.09pab
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