AJT_agreeement
- test: participants have to rate a series of experimental structures using a 1-to-4 scale presented via emoticon faces (1 = sounds bad; 4= sounds good). The structures involve English/Spanish code-switching at 2 grammatical points:
DP subject + copula verb with adjective
The house es bonita / bonito
La casa is nice
DP or pronominal subject + verb
La señora / Ella hugs her sister
The teacher / She lee una revista
- languages: English, Spanish
- participants: 48 adults (2L1 English, Spanish), 111 adults (L2 English-L1 Spanish), 8 adults (L2 Spanish), 101 children (2L1 English, Spanish), 49 children (L2 English-L1 Spanish)
- objective: to determine how gender and person features shape the code-switching preferences of different groups of bilinguals and to link these preferences to the concept of language dominance and to how features are represented in the bilingual mind