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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.</abstract>
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%0 Journal Article
%T Shared Lexical Items as Triggers of Code Switching
%A Wintner, Shuly
%A Shehadi, Safaa
%A Zeira, Yuli
%A Osmelak, Doreen
%A Nov, Yuval
%J Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
%D 2023
%V 11
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%F wintner-etal-2023-shared
%X 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.
%R 10.1162/tacl_a_00613
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.tacl-1.83
%U https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00613
%P 1471-1484

Markdown (Informal)

[Shared Lexical Items as Triggers of Code Switching](https://aclanthology.org/2023.tacl-1.83) (Wintner et al., TACL 2023)

• Shared Lexical Items as Triggers of Code Switching (Wintner et al., TACL 2023)

ACL

• Shuly Wintner, Safaa Shehadi, Yuli Zeira, Doreen Osmelak, and Yuval Nov. 2023. Shared Lexical Items as Triggers of Code Switching. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 11:1471–1484.