A Network Science Approach to Bilingual Code-switching

Qihui Xu; Magdalena  Markowska; Martin Chodorow; Ping Li

A Network Science Approach to Bilingual Code-switching

Qihui Xu, Magdalena Markowska, Martin Chodorow, Ping Li

Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies

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Previous research has shown that the structure of the semantic network can influence language production, such that a word with low clustering coefficient (C) is more easily retrieved than a word with high C. In this study, we used a network science approach to examine whether the network structure accounts for why bilinguals code-switch. We established semantic networks for words in each language, then measured the C for each code-switched word and its translated equivalent. The results showed that words where language is switched
have lower C than their translated equivalents in the other language, suggesting that the structures of the lexicons in the two languages play an important role in bilingual code-switching speech

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2021
Publisher	Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL)
Pages	18-27
Number of pages	10
Volume	4
Publication status	Published - Feb 2021

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