BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16823-0e35c92ad45257c08bd82a4b9b0690d2@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260412T061420Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200221T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200221T103000 SUMMARY:Isabel Deibel (Penn State) - Language Representations in the Presence of a Lexical-Functional Split: An Experimental Approach Targeting the Quic hua-Media Lengua-Spanish Interface DESCRIPTION:Language Representations in the Presence of a Lexical-Functi onal Split:\nAn Experimental Approach Targeting the Quichua-Media Lengua -Spanish Interface\n\n \;\n\nMixed languages like Media Lengua incor porate grammar from one source language (here\, \;Quichua) but lexic on from another (here\, Spanish). Due to their linguistic profile\, they provide a unique window into bilingual language usage and language repr esentation. Drawing on sociolinguistic\, structural\, and psycholinguist ic perspectives\, this talk discusses syntactic processes in Media Lengu a on the basis of word order variation in order to gain a deeper underst anding of the representations of grammar and lexicon in the bilingual mi nd.\n\nIn particular\, Deibel investigates whether Media Lengua’s syntac tic processes have been impacted by Spanish\, the language that supplies Media Lengua’s lexical items. Data from a corpus\, from within and betw een-language structural priming and from a language switching task sugge st that Media Lengua is robustly framed by Quichua morphosyntax. The cor pus analysis revealed that different word order patterns correspond to d iscourse-related factors such as persistence of the object referent and its animacy rather than factors directly related to language contact wit h Spanish. The structural priming analysis showed that\, even when parti cipants have the chance to repeat a prime practically verbatim\, it was only the inclusion of the primed Spanish verb in \;responses that si gnificantly led to the incorporation of primed Spanish word order\; in a ll other cases\, participants default to the Quichua patrimonial word or der. Lastly\, data from a language switching task provided evidence that Media Lengua and Quichua employ identical morphosyntactic frames while the co-activation of (head-final) Media Lengua and (head-initial) Spanis h morphosyntactic frames led to competition and increased language switc hing costs.\n\nIn sum\, the results establish Media Lengua as a separate language with clearly defined and robust structural and lexical charact eristics and suggest that Media Lengua’s lexical items are not identical to their Spanish cognate counterparts—a finding that challenges the wid ely held view that contact-induced languages are likely to show effects of convergence with the European language that provided their lexical ma terial. These considerations refine our theories of how languages intera ct and are represented in the minds of bilinguals\, particularly in the presence of large numbers of form-similar lexical items.\n\nFor more det ails: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/isabel-deibel-penn-state-language- representations-in-the-presence-of-a-lexical-functional-split-an-experim ental-approach-targeting-the-quichua-media-lengua-spanish-interface/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Language Representations in the Presence of a Lexical-Fun ctional Split:
An Experimental Approach Targeting the Quichua-Media L engua-Spanish Interface

 

Mixed languages like Media L engua incorporate grammar from one source language (here, Qui chua) but lexicon from another (here, Spanish). Due to their linguistic profile, they provide a unique window into bilingual language usage and language representation. Drawing on sociolinguistic, structural, and psy cholinguistic perspectives, this talk discusses syntactic processes in M edia Lengua on the basis of word order variation in order to gain a deep er understanding of the representations of grammar and lexicon in the bi lingual mind.

In particular, Deibel investigates whether Me dia Lengua’s syntactic processes have been impacted by Spanish, the lang uage that supplies Media Lengua’s lexical items. Data from a corpus, fro m within and between-language structural priming and from a language swi tching task suggest that Media Lengua is robustly framed by Quichua morp hosyntax. The corpus analysis revealed that different word order pattern s correspond to discourse-related factors such as persistence of the obj ect referent and its animacy rather than factors directly related to lan guage contact with Spanish. The structural priming analysis showed that, even when participants have the chance to repeat a prime practically ve rbatim, it was only the inclusion of the primed Spanish verb in res ponses that significantly led to the incorporation of primed Spanish wor d order; in all other cases, participants default to the Quichua patrimo nial word order. Lastly, data from a language switching task provided ev idence that Media Lengua and Quichua employ identical morphosyntactic fr ames while the co-activation of (head-final) Media Lengua and (head-init ial) Spanish morphosyntactic frames led to competition and increased lan guage switching costs.

In sum, the results establish Media Lengua as a separate language with clearly defined and robust structural and le xical characteristics and suggest that Media Lengua’s lexical items are not identical to their Spanish cognate counterparts—a finding that chall enges the widely held view that contact-induced languages are likely to show effects of convergence with the European language that provided the ir lexical material. These considerations refine our theories of how lan guages interact and are represented in the minds of bilinguals, particul arly in the presence of large numbers of form-similar lexical items.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/isabel-deibel-penn -state-language-representations-in-the-presence-of-a-lexical-functional- split-an-experimental-approach-targeting-the-quichua-media-lengua-spanis h-interface/

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