Denbaum, Nofiya and de Prada Pérez, Ana (2020) How do Spanish heritage speakers in the US assign gender to English nouns in Spanish-English code-switching? The effect of noun canonicity and code switcher type. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. ISSN 1879-9264

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Previous studies have observed different gender assignment strategies for English nouns in Spanish-English code-switching (CS). However, these studies have not investigated the role of noun gender canonicity of the Spanish equivalent, they have only examined participants in bilingual speaker mode, and most studies have not explored the role of bilingual language experience. The current study compares gender assignment by heritage speakers of Spanish in a monolingual speaker mode and a bilingual speaker mode, considering the role of noun gender canonicity and CS experience. Results revealed a language mode effect, where participants used significantly more masculine determiners with the same feminine nouns in the CS session than those in the Spanish monolingual session where they used a feminine determiner. Further evidence of a language mode effect was found in the effect of noun canonicity and bilingual language experience. Noun canonicity was only significant in the Spanish monolingual session, where participants used significantly more masculine determiners with non-canonical nouns. Bilingual language experience was only significant in the CS session, where regular code switchers used more masculine default determiners than infrequent code switchers and non-code switchers, while in Spanish-only, all these groups behaved similarly

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cite as: Denbaum, Nofiya & Prada Pérez, Ana De. (2020). How do Spanish heritage speakers in the US assign gender to English nouns in Spanish-English code-switching? The effect of noun canonicity and code switcher type. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 10.1075/lab.19029.den. Copyright: Published Version [pathway a] NoneCC BY-NC Institutional Repository, Subject Repository, Journal Website OA FeeThis pathway has an Open Access fee associated with it OA Publishing This pathway includes Open Access publishing. Embargo:No Embargo
Keywords:	code-switching; gender assignment; noun canonicity; English-Spanish; bilingual mode;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > Spanish
Item ID:	16293
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1075/lab
Depositing User:	Ana DePrada Perez
Date Deposited:	12 Jul 2022 13:26
Journal or Publication Title:	Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Publisher:	Research Gate
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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