Dependency Distance and Bilingual Language Use: Evidence from German/English and Chinese/English Data
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Closely related words tend to be close together in monolingual language use. This paper suggests that this is different in bilingual language use. The Distance Hypothesis (DH) proposes that long dependency distances between syntactically related units facilitate bilingual code-switching. We test the DH on a 9,023 word German/English and a 19,766 word Chinese/English corpus. Both corpora support the DH in that they present longer mixed dependencies than monolingual ones. Selected major dependency types (subject, object, adjunct) also have longer dependency distances when the head word and its dependent are from different languages. We discuss how processing motivations behind the DH make it a potentially viable motivator for bilin-
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