Analyzing the Role of Part-of-Speech in Code-Switching: A Corpus-Based Study

Jie Chi, Peter Bell


Abstract
Code-switching (CS) is a common linguistic phenomenon wherein speakers fluidly transition between languages in conversation. While the cognitive processes driving CS remain a complex domain, earlier investigations have shed light on its multifaceted triggers. This study delves into the influence of Part-of-Speech (POS) on the propensity of bilinguals to engage in CS, employing a comprehensive analysis of Spanish-English and Mandarin-English corpora. Compared with prior research, our findings not only affirm the existence of a statistically significant connection between POS and the likelihood of CS across language pairs, but notably find this relationship exhibits its maximum strength in proximity to CS instances, progressively diminishing as tokens distance themselves from these CS points.
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2024.findings-eacl.120
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024
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March
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2024
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St. Julian’s, Malta
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Yvette Graham, Matthew Purver
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1712–1721
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Jie Chi and Peter Bell. 2024. Analyzing the Role of Part-of-Speech in Code-Switching: A Corpus-Based Study. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024, pages 1712–1721, St. Julian’s, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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