Constraints on Language Mixing: Intrasentential Code-Switching and Borrowing in Spanish/English

By Carol Pfaff. 1979

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CTRL: A Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable Generation (2019, background): “…image generation as well as the recent progress in text generation (Radford et al., 2019) and multitask learning McCann et al. (2018), we train a language model that is conditioned on a variety of control codes (Pfaff, 1979; Poplack, 1980) that make desired features of generated text more explicit.”
Syntactic alignment and shared word order in code-switched sentence production: Evidence from bilingual monologue and dialogue (2010, result): “Similar patterns were found in other studies (e.g., Deuchar, 2005; Eppler, 1999; Lipski, 1978; Pfaff, 1979; Poplack & Meechan, 1995).”
Code-Switching Patterns in the Writing-Related Talk of Young Emergent Bilinguals (2012, background): “…and systematic communicative behavior used by linguistically competent bilinguals to achieve a variety of communicative goals (Gingràs, 1974; Pfaff, 1979; Timm, 1975); (b) is determined by a complex network of sociolinguistic variables and constrained by syntactic and sociolinguistic…”
Making a minimalist approach to codeswitching work: Adding the Matrix Language (2002, background): “Other observers have noted this asymmetry between English nouns occurring in mixed NPs and in EL islands in a Spanish frame (Pfaff, 1979; Milian, 1996; Jake and Myers-Scotton, 1997).”
A Multilingual Perspective on Translanguaging (2017, background): “Lipski (1978), Pfaff (1979), and Woolford (1983) similarly proposed that an equivalence condition governed the ways in which languages could be mixed.”
First Language Use in Second and Foreign Language Learning (2009, unknown): “Traditionally this is defi ned as a mixing of two languages within a sentence where the joins between the two (or more) different language segments are subject to syntactic, semantic and discourse constraints (Pfaff, 1979).”
On the emergence of bilingual code-switching competence (2001, background): “…code-switching is rule-governed and systematic (cf., GingraÁs, 1974; Gumperz and HernaÂndez-ChaÂvez, 1975; Timm, 1975; Aguirre, 1977; Gumperz, 1976; Pfaff, 1979; Reyes, 1976, 1978), demonstrating grammatical regularities that re¯ect the operation of underlying syntactic restrictions (cf., Poplack,…”
Bilingual experience shapes language processing: Evidence from codeswitching (2017, background): “A point worth emphasizing is that, while previously proposed linguistically-based constraints (e.g., Lipski, 1978; Pfaff, 1979; Poplack, 1980) have predicted mixed NPs as a feasible switch point because Spanish and English share the same surface order, these constraints do not predict asymmetric…”
Processing verb argument structure across languages: Evidence for shared representations in the bilingual lexicon (2007, background): “…code switches are structurally constrained in that they occur at points where they do not violate the surface syntactic requirements of either language (Pfaff, 1979; Poplack, 1980) or at least of the language that sets the grammatical frame of the utterance (MyersScotton & Jake, 1995).”
Deep Learning for Text Style Transfer: A Survey (2020, background): “Different from language modeling that learns how to generate general natural language text, conditional language modeling learns how to generate text given a condition, such as some context, or a control code (Pfaff 1979; Poplack 2000).”
Structural priming across languages (2003, background): “Such switches are far from random in their placement, inasmuch as most switches exhibit structural contraints that put them at points where there is no syntactic conflict between the two languages (Pfaff 1979).”