RT Journal Article
SR Electronic(1)
A1 Putnam, Michael T.
A1 Klosinski, Robert
YR 2020
T1 The good, the bad, and the gradient: The role of losers in code-switching
JF Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
VO 10
IS 1
SP 5
OP 34
DO https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.16008.put
PB John Benjamins
SN 1879-9264,
AB Abstract
Although formal analyses of code-switching have enjoyed some success in determining which structures and interfaces are more
fertile environments for switches than others, research exposing recalcitrant counter-examples to proposed constraints and axioms
responsible for governing code-switching is abound. We advance the claim here that sub-optimal representations, i.e.,
losers, stand to reveal important information regarding the interaction of grammatical
principles and processing strategies of bilingual speakers and that any comprehensive analysis of code-switching phenomena should
include them. These losers are the result of gradient activation in both input and output forms. We demonstrate how the formalism
Gradient Symbolic Computation (GSC; Smolensky et al., 2014) can account for both of
these observed facets of bilingual grammars in a unified manner. Building upon the work of Goldrick et al. (2016a,b), we provide an analysis of mixed determiner phrases
(DPs) as an example of the fundamental components of a GSC-analysis.,
UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/lab.16008.put