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Questions on data and the input to GEN*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2016

LUIS LÓPEZ
LUIS LÓPEZ*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Address for correspondence: Luis López, Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies (MC 315), 601 South Morgan St, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL 60607luislope@uic.edu
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The keynote article (Goldrick, Putnam & Schwartz, 2016) discusses doubling phenomena occasionally found in code-switching corpora. Their analysis focuses on an English–Tamil sentence in which an SVO sequence in English is followed by a verb in Tamil, resulting in an apparent VOV structure:

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Keywords

code-switchingblendingGENoptimality
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Peer Commentaries
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 19 , Issue 5 , November 2016 , pp. 889 - 890
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Footnotes

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I would like to thank the members of the UIC Bilingualism Research Laboratory for discussion and continuous inspiration.

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