Interactive alignment and lexical triggering of code-switching in bilingual dialogue
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Context A hallmark of bilingual speech is code-switching, i.e., the use of more than one language in the same utterance. Studying code-switching provides important insights into the cognitive mechanisms of bilingual language use. Two mechanisms that may influence bilinguals' tendency to code-switch are lexical triggering and interactive alignment. Lexical triggering refers to the mechanism that bilinguals’ likelihood to code-switch is enhanced when the utterance to be produced contains a word with a similar form across languages. Interactive alignment refers to the mechanism that bilinguals’ likelihood to code-switch is enhanced when the utterance to be produced is preceded by a code-switched utterance, for example from a dialogue partner. Both factors have mostly been tested on corpus data and have not yet been studied in combination. In two experiments, we therefore investigated the combined effects of interactive alignment and lexical triggering on code-switching between Dutch and English in dialogue. The current dataset provides the data and documentation belonging to these two experiments. Experiment 1 In Experiment 1, Dutch-English bilinguals described …
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