The future of code mixing research: Integrating psycholinguistic and formal grammatical theories*. Issue 5 (22nd March 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: GOLDRICK, MATTHEW; PUTNAM, MICHAEL; SCHWARZ, LARA
• Is Part Of: Bilingualism. Volume 19:Issue 5(2016)
• Page Start: 903
• Page End: 906
• Publication Date: 2016-03-22
• Subjects: Code mixing, -- Gradient Symbolic Computation; Bilingualism -- Periodicals; Psycholinguistics -- Periodicals; Language acquisition -- Periodicals; 404.2
• DOI: 10.1017/S1366728916000390
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1366-7289

Abstract

Abstract : Our keynote article "Coactivation in bilingual grammars: A computational account of code mixing" (Goldrick, Putnam & Schwarz) aimed to provide a framework that would begin to unify psycholinguistic and formal grammatical approaches to code mixing. We situated our account within a large body of psycholinguistic and phonetic evidence suggesting that, under many conditions, multiple representational elements simultaneously occupy (to varying degrees) a single position within a linguistic structure. The presence of such blends in multilingual cognition is not compatible with many formal grammatical approaches that assume mental representations are necessarily discrete.