In this paper I argue for a syntactic analysis to gender assignment in codeswitched speech.
To sustain this claim, I examine gender assignment in Spanish Det (erminer)–English noun …

Drawing on naturally-occurring bilingual speech from a well-defined codeswitching
community in Southern Arizona, this study examined the influence of semantic gender (aka …

Bilinguals speaking with other bilinguals engage in codeswitching (CS). CS is not a priori
predictable, yet bilinguals suffer no appreciable costs to communication. One hypothesis …

Aims and objectives: This study explores the well-researched topic of gender assignment to
English nouns in Spanish discourse through a usage-based framework. The goal is to …

Does bilingual language influence in the domain of phonetics impact the morphosyntactic
domain? Spanish gender is encoded by word-final, unstressed vowels (/aeo/), which may …

Previous research on language mixing has revealed similarities in written and oral
production with respect to syntactic and pragmatic patterns (eg Callahan 2004). In this study …

Aims and objectives: This article examines a grey area on the code-switching–borrowing
continuum in a Basque–Spanish language contact situation. It is argued that the notion of …

We analyze the emergence of grammatical gender in the spontaneous longitudinal Spanish
production of a set of Spanish/English bilingual twins from the FerFuLice corpus (Fernández …

We examined gender assignment patterns in the speech of Spanish/English bilingual
children, paying particular attention to the influence of three gender assignment strategies …

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 …