Co-authored poster presented at Heritage Languages at the Crossroads (HL@C), Istanbul, Turkey. [PDF]
This study explores how lexical items, specifically cognates and culturally specific terms, influence the acceptability of code-switched sentences among Spanish-English bilinguals. Preliminary findings suggest that culturally specific words are rated as more acceptable in code-switched sentences than cognates. These results indicate that lexical item choice can impact code-switching judgments, potentially due to the cultural and identity significance of certain terms.
Bryan Koronkiewicz 