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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.
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