Extending a Gradient Symbolic approach to the native versus non-native contrast: The case of plurals in compounds. Issue 5 (3rd March 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: VERÍSSIMO, JOÃO
• Is Part Of: Bilingualism. Volume 19:Issue 5(2016)
• Page Start: 900
• Page End: 902
• Publication Date: 2016-03-03
• Subjects: Bilingualism -- Periodicals; Psycholinguistics -- Periodicals; Language acquisition -- Periodicals; 404.2
• DOI: 10.1017/S1366728916000134
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1366-7289

Abstract

Abstract : The Gradient Symbolic Computation (GSC) model presented in the keynote article (Goldrick, Putnam & Schwarz) constitutes a significant theoretical development, not only as a model of bilingual code-mixing, but also as a general framework that brings together symbolic grammars and graded representations. The authors are to be commended for successfully integrating a theory of grammatical knowledge with the voluminous research on lexical co-activation in bilinguals. It is, however, unfortunate that a certain conception of bilingualism was inherited from this latter research tradition, one in which the contrast between native and non-native language takes a back seat.