Experimental contributions of eye-tracking to the understanding of comprehension processes while hearing and reading code-switches

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21201626
AutoresJorge R Valdés Kroff (0000-0002-3943-5496, University of Florida), Rosa E Guzzardo Tamargo (0000-0002-3074-8680, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras), Paola E Dussias (0000-0002-9481-7489, Pennsylvania State University)
Ano2018
Volume8
Fascículo1
Páginas98-133
Data de publicação2018-03-08
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLinguistic Approaches to Bilingualism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1879-9264 • E-ISSN: 1879-9272
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/lab.16011.val
OpenAlexW2614918567
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21
Referências citadas67

Researchers who study code-switching using lab-based approaches face a series of methodological challenges; these include, but are not limited to, using adequate techniques and tasks that allow for processing that reflects real-language usage and selecting stimuli that reflect the participants’ code-switching community norms. We present two illustrative eye-tracking studies that consider these challenges. Study 1 tests whether experience with code-switching leads to differential processing of Spanish determiner-English noun code-switches (e.g., una cookie ‘a cookie’). Study 2 examines auxiliary-verb code-switches involving the progressive structure (e.g., están cooking ‘are cooking’) and perfect structure (e.g., han cooked ‘have cooked’) while participants read either for comprehension or provide grammaticality judgments. The results of both studies highlight the advantages that eye-tracking provides when its use is accompanied by an appropriate bilingual sample, by stimuli that reflect actual bilingual language use, and by secondary tasks that do not invoke metalinguistic processes

Code-switching · Cognitive psychology · Comprehension · Eye movement · Eye tracking · Grammar · Grammaticality · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Noun · Programming language · Verb · Computer Science · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language Development and Disorders · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence