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Anne Neveu1, Margarethe McDonald2,3, Margarita Kaushanskaya1
1Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706-1380, USA.
Bilinguals code-switch more when using both languages, but cognates do not significantly trigger these switches or cause more disfluencies. Language context is key in bilingual speech production.
Area of Science:
- Psycholinguistics
- Bilingualism Research
- Cognitive Science
Background:
- The
Purpose of the Study:
- Investigate the
Main Methods:
- Forty English-Spanish bilinguals participated in a picture-cued sentence production task.
- Participants completed tasks in English-only, Spanish-only, and mixed-language conditions.
- Cognates and non-cognates were used to test the triggered switching hypothesis.
Main Results:
- Participants code-switched more in the mixed-language condition than in monolingual conditions.
- No significant difference in code-switching rates was found between cognate and non-cognate trials.
- Fluency effects related to cognates and language conditions were not statistically significant.
Conclusions:
- Language context significantly influences code-switching frequency in bilinguals.
- Cognate status does not appear to be a significant trigger for code-switching or disfluencies.
- Both language context and word properties are crucial for understanding bilingual speech production.
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