Linguistic characteristics of bimodal bilingual code-blending: Evidence from acceptability judgments
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Lillo-Martin, Diane
[1]
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Gagne, Deanna
[2]
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Avino, Melissa
[2]
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Bobaljik, Jonathan D.
[3]
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Wurmbrand, Susanne
[4]
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Quadros, Ronice Müller de
[5]
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Keller, Grace
[2]
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[1] University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut
Town of Mansfield, Estados Unidos
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[2] Gallaudet University
Gallaudet University
Estados Unidos
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[3] Harvard University
Harvard University
City of Cambridge, Estados Unidos
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[4] University of Salzburg
University of Salzburg
Salzburg, Austria
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[5] Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Brasil
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- Localización: Bilingualism: Language and cognition, ISSN 1366-7289, Vol. 29, Nº 2, 2026, págs. 322-335
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Code-blending is the simultaneous expression of utterances using both a sign language and a spoken language. We expect that like code-switching, code-blending is linguistically constrained and thus we investigate two hypothesized constraints using an acceptability judgment task. Participants rated the acceptability of code-blended utterances designed to be consistent or inconsistent with these hypothesized constraints. We find strong support for the proposed constraint that each modality of code-blended utterances contributes content to a single proposition. We also find support for the proposed constraint that – at least for American Sign Language (ASL) and English – code-blended utterances make use of a single derivation which is realized using surface forms in the two languages, rather than two simultaneous derivations, one for each language. While this study was limited to ASL/English code-blending and further investigation is needed, we hope that this novel study will encourage future research comparing linguistic constraints on code-blending and code-switching.
