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Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism - Volume 6, Issue 6, 2016
Volume 6, Issue 6, 2016
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The development of bimodal bilingualism
Author(s): Diane Lillo-Martin, Ronice Müller de Quadros and Deborah Chen Pichlerpp.: 719–755 (37)More LessAbstractA wide range of linguistic phenomena contribute to our understanding of the architecture of the human linguistic system. In this paper we present a proposal dubbed Language Synthesis to capture bilingual phenomena including code-switching and ‘transfer’ as automatic consequences of the addition of a second language, using basic concepts of Minimalism and Distributed Morphology. Bimodal bilinguals, who use a sign language and a spoken language, provide a new type of evidence regarding possible bilingual phenomena, namely code-blending, the simultaneous production of (aspects of) a message in both speech and sign. We argue that code-blending also follows naturally once a second articulatory interface is added to the model. Several different types of code-blending are discussed in connection to the predictions of the Synthesis model. Our primary data come from children developing as bimodal bilinguals, but our proposal is intended to capture a wide range of bilingual effects across any language pair.
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A tale of two articulators
Author(s): Jill P. Morford and Phyllis Perrin Wilcoxpp.: 792–798 (7)More Less
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