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author = "Torres, Charles John and
Xu, Weijie and
Li, Yanting and
Futrell, Richard",
editor = "Kuribayashi, Tatsuki and
Rambelli, Giulia and
Takmaz, Ece and
Wicke, Philipp and
Li, Jixing and
Oh, Byung-Doh",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics",
month = may,
year = "2025",
address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.cmcl-1.25/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.cmcl-1.25",
pages = "207--218",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-227-5",
abstract = "Creolization and code-switching are closely related contact-induced linguistic phenomena, yet little attention has been paid to the connection between them. In this paper, we propose an agent-based cognitive model which provides a linkage between these two phenomena focusing on the statistical regularization of language use. That is, we identify that creolization as a conventionalization process and code-switching as flexible language choice can emerge from the same cognitive model in different social environments. Our model postulates a social structure of bilingual and monolingual populations, in which a set of agents seek for optimal communicative strategy shaped by multiple cognitive constraints. The simulation results show that our model successfully captures both phenomena as two ends of a continuum, characterized by varying degrees of regularization in the use of linguistic constructions from multiple source languages. The model also reveals a subtle dynamic between social structure and individual-level cognitive constraints."
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%T Creolization versus code-switching: An agent-based cognitive model for bilingual strategies in language contact
%A Torres, Charles John
%A Xu, Weijie
%A Li, Yanting
%A Futrell, Richard
%Y Kuribayashi, Tatsuki
%Y Rambelli, Giulia
%Y Takmaz, Ece
%Y Wicke, Philipp
%Y Li, Jixing
%Y Oh, Byung-Doh
%S Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
%D 2025
%8 May
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
%@ 979-8-89176-227-5
%F torres-etal-2025-creolization
%X Creolization and code-switching are closely related contact-induced linguistic phenomena, yet little attention has been paid to the connection between them. In this paper, we propose an agent-based cognitive model which provides a linkage between these two phenomena focusing on the statistical regularization of language use. That is, we identify that creolization as a conventionalization process and code-switching as flexible language choice can emerge from the same cognitive model in different social environments. Our model postulates a social structure of bilingual and monolingual populations, in which a set of agents seek for optimal communicative strategy shaped by multiple cognitive constraints. The simulation results show that our model successfully captures both phenomena as two ends of a continuum, characterized by varying degrees of regularization in the use of linguistic constructions from multiple source languages. The model also reveals a subtle dynamic between social structure and individual-level cognitive constraints.
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%P 207-218
Markdown (Informal)
[Creolization versus code-switching: An agent-based cognitive model for bilingual strategies in language contact](https://aclanthology.org/2025.cmcl-1.25/) (Torres et al., CMCL 2025)
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