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8 - Psycho-Syntactic Questions: Acquisition, Priming and Co-activation, and a Note on Processing Cost

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2020

Luis López
Luis López
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Chicago
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Summary

Scholars working on bilingual acquisition commonly assume that it involves acquiring two separate, autonomous systems. This chapter shows that the argument presented for this assumption, based on 'functional separation' is misguided. In particular, it is shown that the MDM model can handle functional separation without difficulty. Work on syntactic coactivation and priming supports the integrated hypothesis. If there is a processing cost to code-switching, it comes about as a result of disengaging one of the languages, not as a result of engaging a new system.

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bilingual acquisitionseparate development hypothesisfunctional separationsyntactic primingsyntactic coactivationcode-switchingprocessing cost
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Bilingual Grammar
Toward an Integrated Model
 , pp. 146 - 164
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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