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arXiv:2308.15209 (cs)
[Submitted on 29 Aug 2023]

Title:Shared Lexical Items as Triggers of Code Switching

Authors:Shuly Wintner, Safaa Shehadi, Yuli Zeira, Doreen Osmelak, Yuval Nov
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Abstract:Why do bilingual speakers code-switch (mix their two languages)? Among the several theories that attempt to explain this natural and ubiquitous phenomenon, the Triggering Hypothesis relates code-switching to the presence of lexical triggers, specifically cognates and proper names, adjacent to the switch point. We provide a fuller, more nuanced and refined exploration of the triggering hypothesis, based on five large datasets in three language pairs, reflecting both spoken and written bilingual interactions. Our results show that words that are assumed to reside in a mental lexicon shared by both languages indeed trigger code-switching; that the tendency to switch depends on the distance of the trigger from the switch point; and on whether the trigger precedes or succeeds the switch; but not on the etymology of the trigger words. We thus provide strong, robust, evidence-based confirmation to several hypotheses on the relationships between lexical triggers and code-switching.
Comments: This is the author's final version; the article has been accepted for publication in the Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)
Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
Cite as: arXiv:2308.15209 [cs.CL]
  (or arXiv:2308.15209v1 [cs.CL] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.15209

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From: Shuly Wintner [view email]
[v1] Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:55:44 UTC (834 KB)
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