Language contact, borrowing and code switching

Code-switching and borrowing in Irish

Minority languages and code-switching Code-switching in bilingual communities has been extensively discussed (e.g. Clyne 2003; Myers-Scotton 1997, 2002; Poplack 2004). Here, code-switching is examined in Irish, an endangered language. Crystal (2000) noted that a significant increase in codeswitching is one of the signs that a minority language is coming under pressure from a majority language. ...

Code-switching and language change in Tunisia

This article quantitatively studies the patterns of Tunisian Arabic/French codeswitching and the possible implications for contact-induced change in the Tunisian dialect. The purpose is to account for the extent of the occurrence of code-switching across gender lines and levels of education and assess its role in the interference from French into Arabic, both at the lexical and structural level...

Code-switching and Italian abroad. Reflections on language contact and bilingual mixture

Language Code Switching in Web Corpora

One of the challenges in building and using web corpora is their rather high content of “noise”, most notably having the form of foreign-language text fragments within otherwise monolingual text. Our paper presents an approach trying to cope with this problem by means of “exhaustive” stop-word lists provided by morphosyntactic taggers. As a side effect of the procedure, a problem of tagging tex...

Language Identification in Code-Switching Scenario

This paper describes a CRF based token level language identification system entry to Language Identification in CodeSwitched (CS) Data task of CodeSwitch 2014. Our system hinges on using conditional posterior probabilities for the individual codes (words) in code-switched data to solve the language identification task. We also experiment with other linguistically motivated language specific as ...