Resumen de Naturalistic and elicited data in grammatical studies of codeswitching

Jeff MacSwan, Kara T. McAlister

• The authors discuss the merits of naturalistic and elicited data in the study of grammatical aspects of codeswitching. Three limitations of naturalistic data are discussed, including the problems of negative evidence, induction, and unidentified performance error. The authors recommend the use of language surveys as a tool for overcoming limitations of elicited grammaticality judgment data.