Investigating code-switching and disfluencies in bilingual dialogue

• This paper investigates the relationship between disfluency and code-switching in bilingual dialogue. We examine a corpus of 41 bilingual (Spanish-English) conversations and test the hypothesis that code-switching can be a response to negative evidence of grounding in the form of disfluencies. We find that there is a statistically significant relation between disfluencies and code-switching. Particularly, disfluencies have a positive effect on within turn code-switching.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Language Studies and Linguistics (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

dialogue

code-switching

Publikations- och innehållstyp

ref (ämneskategori)

kon (ämneskategori)