Marie-Paule Couto

Datos Biográficos

ID698774
NOMBREMarie-Paule Couto
NOMBRESMarie-Paule
APELLIDOCouto
FIRMACOUTO M
AFILIACIONESLeiden University
ORCID0000-0001-7306-3393
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS44
TOTAL DE CITAS42
TOTAL COMO AUTOR44
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2010
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H4

  • ‘I speak Dutch easily, like walking’

    Open AccessHadis Tamleh, Gijsbert Rutten et al.ARTICLEJournal of Multilingual and…2026

  • “A branca Schere” or “a tesoura weiβe”? Adjective placement in Portuguese–German code-switching by bilingual children and adolescents

    Open AccessCristina Maria Moreira Flores, Esther Rinke et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2026

    This study investigates code-switching (CS) within the noun phrase in Portuguese-German bilingual children and adolescents (aged 8-16) in German-speaking Switzerland. Using an elicited imitation task with 49 participants, we examine how linguistic and extralinguistic factors shape CS behaviour. The experiment manipulated matrix language (German vs. Portuguese), insertion type (adjective vs. noun), and adjective position (prenominal vs. postnomina…

  • Language ideologies guiding language practices and management strategies

    Open AccessHadis Tamleh, Gijsbert Rutten et al.ARTICLEJournal of Multilingual and…2026Citada por: 2Referencias: 39

  • Intensification Strategies in English–Spanish Bilingual Speech

    Open AccessSimon A Claassen, Renata Enghels et al.ARTICLELanguages2025

    This paper investigates the speech variety of the English–Spanish community of Miami, which features a high degree of English–Spanish bilingualism. Specifically, it explores intensification, a site of analytic–synthetic conflict between English and Spanish grammars. English predominantly uses lexical-analytic strategies (e.g., very beautiful, a big house) for intensification, whereas Spanish employs more morphological-synthetic markers (e.g., gua…

  • Translanguaging

    Open AccessFelix K Ameka, Marianne Gullberg et al.ARTICLELinguistic Approaches to…2025

  • Variation in gender assignment strategies in mixed Spanish–Chinese noun phrases

    Open AccessRuixue Wu, Marie-Paule Couto et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    Aims and objectives: This study investigates gender assignment strategies in mixed Spanish–Chinese noun phrases (NPs) among early Spanish–Chinese bilinguals in Barcelona, Spain. It explores whether bilinguals rely on a default masculine or use the gender of Spanish translation equivalents across production and comprehension tasks. Design/methodology/approach: A multitask approach was employed, including a director-matcher task, a sentence repetit…

  • Remarks on the syntax of bare nouns in Papiamentu

    Open AccessLuis López, Rodi Laanen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…2025Referencias: 37

    This article presents an argument that bare (singular) nouns in Papiamentu include additional silent functional structure, as proposed in Kester and Schmitt (2007) . The argument is based on Dutch-Papiamentu code-switched noun phrases and exploits the crucial datum that a Dutch bare noun is grammatical when inserted in a Papiamentu sentence, although bare nouns are ungrammatical in a Dutch unilingual sentence. We propose that this datum can be ac…

  • Enhancing Code-Switching Research Through Comparable Corpora

    Open AccessMargot Vanhaverbeke, Renata Enghels et al.ARTICLELanguages2025Referencias: 55

    Research on language contact outcomes, such as code-switching, continues to face theoretical and methodological challenges, particularly due to the difficulty of comparing findings across studies that use divergent data collection methods. Accordingly, scholars have emphasized the need for publicly available and comparable bilingual corpora. This paper introduces the El Paso Bilingual Corpus, a new Spanish-English bilingual corpus recorded in El …

  • Faire avec les normes de Parcoursup

    Open AccessMarion Valarcher, Fanny Bugeja-Bloch et al.ARTICLEÉducation et socialisation2024

    Une des nouveautés de Parcoursup est d’intégrer de plus en plus les réorientations vers une première année d’enseignement supérieur français. À partir d’une étude qualitative des dossiers de réorientation en sociologie, cet article interroge la manière dont le fonctionnement du dispositif Parcoursup impose des normes institutionnelles désajustées aux parcours non linéaires des étudiantes en réorientation. Les désajustements sont doubles : d’une p…

  • Modelling multilingual ecologies beyond the L1-L2 Binary

    Open AccessEnoch O Aboh, Marie-Paule CoutoARTICLELinguistic Approaches to…2024

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  • The role of INFL in code-switching

    Open AccessMarie-Paule Couto, M Carmen Parafita Couto et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Language Sciences2024

    Introduction In heritage bilingualism studies, code-switching has often been overlooked, with a focus on either the heritage language or the dominant societal language of the bilingual individual. However, exploring code-switching can provide valuable insights into heritage speakers' grammar, revealing patterns that may not be apparent when only examining monolingual speech. Recent research suggests that in code-switched clauses, functional eleme…

  • Variable Acceptability of Differential Object Marking in Bilingual Galician–Spanish Speakers

    Open AccessManuel Delicado Cantero, Marie-Paule CoutoARTICLELanguages2024Referencias: 24

    This paper presents an initial study of the acceptability of differential object marking (DOM) by Galician–Spanish bilinguals in Galicia. The research explores judgments provided by these bilinguals (n = 69) on DOM in both Galician and Spanish and it also explores data from a monolingual Spanish control group (n = 12). The surveys target contexts covering key syntactic and semantic–pragmatic contexts for DOM in Galician and Spanish, based on the …

  • Code-Switching at the Interfaces

    Open AccessAntje Muntendam, Marie-Paule CoutoARTICLELanguages2024Citada por: 2Referencias: 57

    One characteristic of multilingual speakers is that in everyday life, they may integrate elements from their languages in the same sentence or discourse, a practice known as code-switching. This paper examines code-switching at the interfaces, in particular as related to information structure. Despite the fact that a core question of modern linguistic theory is how syntactic and information-structural theories interact in accounting for licensing…

  • Make your mouth agua

    Open AccessLuis López, Irati De Nicolás et al.ARTICLEBorealis – An International…2023

    Recent work argues that a bilingual linguistic system is fully integrated in one competence system and does not consist of two separate, autonomous systems as is commonly assumed (see Goldrick et al 2016, Grimstad et al 2014, López 2020, Riksam 2017). Here, we explore the organization of the lexicon within the integration hypothesis using data based on idioms and code-switching. The working hypothesis is that if the lexicons of a bilingual person…

  • Lectures

    Vultur Vultur, Marie-Paule Couto et al.ARTICLEFormation emploi2023

    Fr 30/09/2023 Entreprise Les plateformes de travail numriques : Polygraphie d'un nouveau modle organisationnel

  • On the grammaticality of passivization in bilingual compound verbs

    Open AccessOsmer Balam, Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Objectives/research questions: We examined stative and eventive passive bilingual compound verbs (BCVs) in Spanish/English code-switching. Of particular interest to us was the availability of passivization in bilingual eventive passive hacer “do” constructions, purportedly banned in bilingual speech due to a universal syntactic restriction. Methodology: A total of 119 bilinguals from Northern Belize and 36 from Southwest United States completed a…

  • Gender assignment strategies and L1 effects in the elicited production of mixed Spanish-Basque DPs

    Open AccessAmaia Munarriz-Ibarrola, María José Ezeizabarrena Segurola et al.ARTICLELinguistic Approaches to…2022

    This paper investigates the strategies involved in gender assignment in Spanish-Basque mixed Determiner Phrases (DPs) with a gendered Spanish determiner ( el M / la F ) and a Basque ungendered noun. Previous studies on Spanish-Basque mixed DPs have revealed conflicting results regarding the determining factor affecting gender assignment, namely, phonological ending vs. analogical gender. We designed a forced-switch elicitation task in order to el…

  • Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual grammars

    Brechje Van Osch, Ivo Boers et al.CHAPTERAcquisition of Gender2022

    This study reports on grammatical gender assignment in elicited production data from heritage speakers of Turkish, Papiamento, and Spanish in the Netherlands. We investigate the role of cross-linguistic influence from the heritage language onto the societal language by comparing three heritage languages that differ in terms of the properties of the nominal domain, including gender. Determiner-adjective-noun constructions were elicited by means of…

  • Ce que masquent les « nouveaux publics étudiants

    Open AccessMathieu Rossignol-Brunet, Leïla Frouillou et al.ARTICLELien social et Politiques2022Citada por: 4Referencias: 22

    Cet article revient sur l’expression « nouveaux publics étudiants », popularisée dans le contexte français à la suite de la seconde massification scolaire (1985-1995) pour caractériser l’apparition d’une population étudiante moins dotée à la fois socialement et scolairement. Or, cette expression est utilisée depuis plusieurs décennies maintenant pour évoquer ces publics inscrits à l’université française, sans pour autant être remise en question. …

  • La motivation au pied de la lettre. Construction et expression des aspirations scolaires sur Parcoursup

    Marie-Paule Couto, Marion ValarcherARTICLEL’Orientation scolaire et…2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 14

    Cet article analyse les modalités de l’encadrement et de l’expression des aspirations des lycéens français. Il apporte un éclairage nouveau sur les inégalités de parcours entre filière générale versus filière technologique et professionnelle. À travers l’analyse d’une enquête nationale et d’un corpus de lettres de motivation rédigées par des candidats à une licence de sociologie, il montre que, faute de moyens, les enseignants disposent principal…

  • Él Code-Switches More Than tú y yo

    Open AccessKate Bellamy, Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez et al.ARTICLELanguages2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 28

    In early studies, code-switches between a subject pronoun and a finite verb were considered highly dispreferred or even impossible. However, naturalistic data from several language pairs has since highlighted that such switches are possible, although their grammaticality is constrained by the typology of the pronouns involved. In this study, we test the switching constraints postulated for subject pronouns-verbs among P'urhepecha-Spanish bilingua…

  • Gender Assignment Strategies Among Simultaneous Spanish/English Bilingual Children from Miami, Florida

    Open AccessOsmer Balam, Usha Lakshmanan et al.ARTICLEStudies in Hispanic and Lusophone…2021

    We examined gender assignment patterns in the speech of Spanish/English bilingual children, paying particular attention to the influence of three gender assignment strategies (i.e., analogical gender, masculine default gender, phonological gender) that have been proposed to constrain the gender assignment process in Spanish/English bilingual speech. Our analysis was based on monolingual Spanish nominals ( n = 1774), which served as a comparative …

  • Parcoursup

    Marie-Paule Couto, Fanny Bugeja-Bloch et al.ARTICLEAgora débats/jeunesses2021Citada por: 8Referencias: 12

    Le dispositif d’affectation postbaccalauréat Parcoursup, mis en place en 2018, peut être analysé comme un élément favorisant la stratification scolaire et sociale des formations supérieures. Cela tient à l’accentuation de la logique du « libre choix scolaire », mais aussi à la fin de la hiérarchisation des vœux, cruciale dans Admission post-bac (APB), à la prise en compte d’éléments extrascolaires dans les candidatures et au renforcement de la ca…

  • Bilingual verbs in three Spanish/English code-switching communities

    Open AccessOsmer Balam, Marie-Paule Couto et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    Objectives/research questions: We investigate two understudied bilingual compound verbs that have been attested in Spanish/English code-switching; namely, ‘ hacer + V Inf ’ and ‘ estar + V Prog ’. Specifically, we examined speakers’ intuitions vis-à-vis the acceptability and preferential use of non-canonical and canonical hacer ‘to do’ or estar ‘to be’ bilingual constructions among bilinguals from Northern Belize, New Mexico and Puerto Rico. Meth…

  • Gender in Unilingual and Mixed Speech of Spanish Heritage Speakers in The Netherlands

    Open AccessIvo Boers, Bo Sterken et al.ARTICLELanguages2020Citada por: 1Referencias: 47

    This study examines heritage speakers of Spanish in The Netherlands regarding their production of gender in both their languages (Spanish and Dutch) as well as their gender assignment strategies in code-switched constructions. A director-matcher task was used to elicit unilingual and mixed speech from 21 participants (aged 8 to 52, mean = 17). The nominal domain consisting of a determiner, noun, and adjective was targeted in three modes: (i) Unil…