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:5616-95c763e00126fc2ae7e1a2734b4fedfe@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T203935Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200525T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200525T103000 SUMMARY:Rena Torres Cacoullos (Penn State) Code-Switching and Grammars in Contac t: Connected but not Conflated DESCRIPTION:\nDespite elusive evidence\, it is widely held that code-swi tching promotes grammatical convergence. This talk puts forward quantita tive diagnostics of grammatical similarity and difference by using struc tural variation in speech. The poster child for convergence has been var iable subject pronoun expression in Spanish toward English\, which is cl assified as a non-null subject language (e.g.\, Heine and Kuteva 2005:70 \; Otheguy and Zentella 2012). Variation patterns are uncovered in a 300 \,000-word corpus capturing the spontaneous bilingual speech of members of a long-standing community in northern New Mexico (Torres Cacoullos an d Travis 2018). Approximately 10\,000 tokens of the variable are extract ed from this bilingual corpus\, and from comparable monolingual corpora of both Spanish and English. The most direct test of the hypothesis of c onvergence via code-switching is by comparing bilinguals&rsquo\; own use of the two languages. Four independent analyses of the linguistic condi tioning of variable subject expression show that the bilinguals&rsquo\; Spanish and English differ from each other and align with their respecti ve monolingual benchmarks. Moreover\, comparisons in the presence and ab sence of code-switching reveal that bilinguals maintain Spanish-particul ar patterns even in the context of proximate use of English.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/rena_torres_cacoullos_penn_sta te_code-switching_and_grammars_in_contact_connected_but_not_conflated/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Despite elusive evidence, it is widely held that code-switching promotes grammatical co nvergence. This talk puts forward quantitative diagnostics of grammatica l similarity and difference by using structural variation in speech. The poster child for convergence has been variable subject pronoun expressi on in Spanish toward English, which is classified as a non-null subject language (e.g., Heine and Kuteva 2005:70; Otheguy and Zentella 2012). Va riation patterns are uncovered in a 300,000-word corpus capturing the sp ontaneous bilingual speech of members of a long-standing community in no rthern New Mexico (Torres Cacoullos and Travis 2018). Approximately 10,0 00 tokens of the variable are extracted from this bilingual corpus, and from comparable monolingual corpora of both Spanish and English. The mos t direct test of the hypothesis of convergence via code-switching is by comparing bilinguals’ own use of the two languages. Four independe nt analyses of the linguistic conditioning of variable subject expressio n show that the bilinguals’ Spanish and English differ from each o ther and align with their respective monolingual benchmarks. Moreover, c omparisons in the presence and absence of code-switching reveal that bil inguals maintain Spanish-particular patterns even in the context of prox imate use of English.

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