Ethnicity and codeswitching

Codeswitching and the timing of Lexical Insertion

Negotiation of Meaning and Codeswitching in Online Tandems

This paper analyses negotiation of meaning and codeswitching in discourse between 29 language students from classes at a German and a North American university, who teamed up with their peers to collaborate on projects whose results they had to present to the other groups in the MOO during the final weeks of the project. From October to December 1998, these learners, who formed a total of eight...

Codeswitching in Bilingual Children with Specific Language Impairment.

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) exhibit limited grammatical skills compared to their peers with typical language. These difficulties may be revealed when alternating their two languages (i.e., codeswitching) within sentences. Fifty-eight Spanish-English speaking children with and without SLI produced narratives using wordless picture books and conversational samples. The result...

Codeswitching Detection via Lexical Features in Conditional Random Fields

Half of the world’s population is estimated to be at least bilingual. Due to this fact many people use multiple languages interchangeably for effective communication. At the Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching, we are presented with a task to label codeswitched, Spanish-English (ES-EN) and Modern Standard Arabic-Dialect Arabic (MSA-DA), tweets. We built a Conditional R...

Codeswitching language identification using Subword Information Enriched Word Vectors

Codeswitching is a widely observed phenomenon among bilingual speakers. By combining subword information enriched word vectors with linear-chain Conditional Random Field, we develop a supervised machine learning model that identifies languages in a English-Spanish codeswitched tweets. Our computational method achieves a tweet-level weighted F1 of 0.83 and a token-level accuracy of 0.949 without...