Processing of sentences with intra-sentential code-switching

Link: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/C/C82/C82-1023.pdf

Summary: Aravind K. Joshi’s essay Processing of sentences with intra-sentential code-switching studies the phenomenon of language code switching as a computational framework which consists of two grammatical systems and a mechanism for switching between the two systems. The authors reveal how speakers of certain bilingual communities systematically produce utterances in which they switch from one language to another. This suggests that the two language systems systematically interact with each other in the production (and recognition) of these sentences. A variety of constraints apparent in these sentences are then explained in terms of constraints on the switching mechanism, especially, those on closed class items.