{"title":"Mixed languages: From core to fringe","authors":"Maria Mazzoli, Eeva Sippola","doi":"10.1515/9781501511257-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501511257-001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":298216,"journal":{"name":"New Perspectives on Mixed Languages","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130552749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advances in mixed language phonology: An overview of three case studies","authors":"Jesse Stewart, Felicity Meakins","doi":"10.1515/9781501511257-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501511257-003","url":null,"abstract":"Mixed languages have provided a fascinating platform for linguistic inquiry for the better part of four decades when initial works began to appear in the literature. From the 1990s to approximately the mid-2000s, interest in the mixed language debate peaked with a number of influential publications that aspired to make sense of this rare linguistic phenomenon. This research laid the foundation for numerous theoretical, empirical, and descriptive works that continue to refine what it means to be a “mixed language” and the importance of these languages in understanding language contact and language genesis. Nearly all studies involving inquiries into mixed languages centre on theoretical, empirical, or descriptive accounts of higher-level phenomena involving the mixing of lexicon, morphosyntax, semantics, in addition to socio-cultural phenomena that give rise to such extreme language mixing. However, beyond basic descriptions based primarily on impressionistic observations, one area of mixed language research that has been largely overlooked is that of phonology, and of greater theoretical interest, the phonetic repercussions of amalgamating two or more sound systems into a single language. Mixed languages are unlike creoles and other forms of language contact in that they are created for expressive purposes rather than out of communicative need. This is because the originators of mixed languages are already proficient bilinguals in the source languages. This fact raises a number of questions regarding how phonological material is arranged in the mixed language as the originators likely had some degree of proficiency in both source sound systems; unlike the originators of creole languages who are often only proficient in one. This chapter provides a synopsis of the advances in mixed language phonology over the last decade based on three case studies involving Media Lengua, Gurindji Kriol, and Michif that have used empirical research involving acoustic measurements and psycholinguistic perception experiments.","PeriodicalId":298216,"journal":{"name":"New Perspectives on Mixed Languages","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121732598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Repertoire management and the performative origin of Mixed Languages","authors":"Y. Matras","doi":"10.1515/9781501511257-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501511257-013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":298216,"journal":{"name":"New Perspectives on Mixed Languages","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126790584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How sentence processing sheds light on mixed language creation","authors":"Evangelia Adamou","doi":"10.1515/9781501511257-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501511257-004","url":null,"abstract":"Auer (1999) and O’Shannessy (2012) suggest that codeswitching can become conventionalized, i.e., what is dubbed a “fused lect”, and eventually give rise to a “mixed language”. In this paper I propose that the study of sentence processing can shed light on this process. I discuss recent experimental data from a typologically rare form of mixing, variably termed “fused lect” (Adamou 2010) and “unevenly mixed language” (Adamou and Granqvist 2015), characterized by the conventionalized use of Turkish verbs together with Turkish morphology in a Romani environment. Specifically, Adamou and Shen (2019) conducted two on-line experiments, a picture choice task with sentence auditory stimuli (37 participants) and a word recognition task in sentence context (49 participants). Results from these experiments indicate that language switching costs depend on the degree of conventionalization and support usage-based approaches to language processing. I argue that these findings also lend support to the categorization of fused lects as an intermediate form between codeswitching and mixed languages.","PeriodicalId":298216,"journal":{"name":"New Perspectives on Mixed Languages","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115352889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}