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- Title
Examining the Functional Category in Chinese–English Code-Switching: Evidence from the Eye-Movements.
- Authors
Li, Rui; Zhang, Zhiyi; Ni, Chuanbin; Xiao, Wei; Wei, Junyan; Dai, Haoyun
- Abstract
To investigate the grammatical constraints of code-switching (CS hereafter) under the disputes of <italic>the constraint-based account </italic>versus <italic>the constraint-free account</italic>, the effects of functional category on CS have long been investigated in the existing studies. Thus, the present study, by asking 47 participants to take part in an eye-movement experiment, examined the potential effects of functional category on Chinese–English CS. We found that differential switch costs at varying code-switched conditions as well as robust switch effects that last from the early to the late stage. The findings could tentatively give rise to the theoretical predictions of <italic>the minimalist program</italic>, a representative of <italic>the constraint-free account</italic> rather than <italic>the functional head constraint</italic>, a typical representative of <italic>the constraint-based account</italic>. Moreover, such switch effects might initiate from the early to the very late stage in terms of <italic>time-course of CS processing</italic>.
- Subjects
CODE switching (Linguistics); ENGLISH language; CHINESE language; EYE movements; MINIMALIST theory (Linguistics)
- Publication
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018, Vol 47, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0090-6905
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10936-017-9513-z